xp sp2 download problem

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Steel City Phantom

would someone please explain to me why this routine has worked for close
to 2 years on clients ranging from windows (including XP), to linux, to
mac's and all of a sudden my winXP clients that install SP2 are now only
downloading zero length files?

//actually send the file
Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" +
sFileName + "\"");
Response.Flush();
Response.WriteFile(sFullFileName);

thanks
 
good god i hope not. this is the heart of a file distribution and
managment system for a couple of hundred people, i would rather shut the
site down than deal with all those firewalls.
 
that's the only problem I have had with SP2 is the firewall. What you could
do is go into Control Panel and run the Windows Firewall. Turn it off and
see if your process works. If it does, then you know what the problem is.

Yosh
 
Yoshi said:
SP2 installed a new firewall program. Do you think that could be a
problem?
Click to expand...

Hardly. The firewall offers no protection against outbund traffic.

Cheers,
 
Hi,
I really don't think that the firewall is your answer.
If you can view webpages then you should be able to download. As from what
I can see you are streaming out on port 80. There is no reason that the
firewall should filter that.

- Landi
PS: Sorry couldn't help you further.
 
You guys will be suprised at what Microsoft has down in SP2 to prevent
"malicious" programs to be downloaded.

I would start with the firewall by turning it off and seeing if your process
works. If it doesn't, head over to Microsoft's website to see what was done
in SP2 for security.

David
Microshaft Corporation
 
You guys will be suprised at what Microsoft has down in SP2 to prevent
"malicious" programs to be downloaded.

I would start with the firewall by turning it off and seeing if your process
works. If it doesn't, head over to Microsoft's website to see what was done
in SP2 for security.

David
Microshaft Corporation
 
i did read the documents. they gave me a list of problems but no
solutions. ive posted on the site that if the user is using XP SP2 then
they should download Mozilla and try again. the damn thing works in
mozilla, the firewall would reject the connection alltogether, not
allow the connection, allow the headers to come down, and then reject
the data from coming down.
 
Has anyone found a solution to this? this is quite severe. I am
having the same problems. Should not the window pop up the security
alert bar thing under the url?
 

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