nbarwig
Mon Feb 25 12:15:09 CST 2008
On Feb 23, 2:26 pm, "Anthony Jones" <A...@yadayadayada.com> wrote:
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> news:c04b372e-30b6-4d89-82f3-8f27b269b8dd@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...> On Feb 22, 10:53 am, "Anthony Jones" <A...@yadayadayada.com> wrote:
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> > > > Hello, I have an issue I am having difficulty diagnosing..
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> > > > In short, I have a asp page that generates only xml output for use
> > > > with an ajax application. On the last step of my process a simple xml-
> > > > word document is generated and displayed in a new window (or iframe).
> > > > The asp document is called with several querystring elements to
> > > > produce the document.
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> > > > In IE7, when the document is returned from the server a Open/Save
> > > > dialog is presented. Here is where things get weird.. Occasionally the
> > > > filename will appear as expected, 'callproc.xml', however the majority
> > > > of the time the filename will appear as '...param1=00000¶m2=abcd'.
> > > > This causes IE to fail opening or saving the document.
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> > > > The XML being generated is valid and when saved will open with Word as
> > > > expected without error. I have also defined the content-type as text/
> > > > xml.
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> > > > Questions:
> > > > 1. How can I consistently get the returned xml document to appear
> > > > correctly without the querystring as part of the file name?
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> > > Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "filename=Whatever.xml"
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> > > > 2. Is there anyway to avoid the Open/Save dialog when requesting an
> > > > XML document?
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> > > You might try a different content type with a view to getting MS Word to
> > > accept and handle the stream. Try application/vnd.ms-word.main+xml
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> > > Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET
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> > > Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET
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> > Thanks for the reply Anthony!
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> > Here is the header I am producing.. I had thought of the content-
> > disposition, but it has made no difference.
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> > Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
> > Response.Expires = 0
> > Response.Expiresabsolute = Now() - 1
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> Both of these set the Expires headers, use only 1 not both. Now() - 1 is
> fairly good if you really want the content to expire.
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> > Response.AddHeader "pragma","no-cache"
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> Technically this can appear in a response but it is primarily used in
> requests, I'd remove it.
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> > Response.AddHeader "cache-control","private"
> > Response.CacheControl = "no-cache"
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> The CacheControl property sets the Cache-Control header so only use that
> there is no need to attemtp to Add the cache control header yourself. Try:-
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> Response.CacheControl = "private; no-cache; max-age=0"
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> for a belts and braces header.
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> > Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "filename=callproc.xml"
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> That looks good.
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> The only reason I can think of that would cause you to not always see this
> filename is because the content is not being re-fetched from the server.
> When IE re-uses content it already has it doesn't honor the
> Content-Disposition header.
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> Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET
You rock Anthony. Thank you for you're responses. I took another
approach to generate the end document. Instead of writing a purely XML
word doc I just changed the header to be "word" and now write it out
in HTML which is much easier then pure XML :-D
Thanks alot, very helpful!