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Opening A (Binary) File With An Unknown Extension (.MSG, .CAD) Using IE Opens File In Browser Instead Of Prompting User To Download (Doc ID 1373257.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 09, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle WebCenter Content - Version 11.1.1.3.0 to 11.1.1.5.0 [Release 11g]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms


When downloading the weblayout copy of a file with an unknown extension (.msg, .123) in Internet Explorer, the browser opens the file as plain text. For binary files, this will results in a page with unreadable content (garbage characters).

Downloading the same file in Mozilla/Firefox correctly prompts the end-user to download the file to disk.

A TCP/IP trace shows that the content-type (mime-type) is not passed to the browser in the HTTP response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:38:18 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 63488
Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:03:05 GMT
X-ORACLE-DMS-ECID: d5c391d61ed94bf0:-34f5058d:13363ebc50d:-8000-0000000000000a1c
X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5 JSP/2.1

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