Just a simple [cpan.org] guy, hacking Perl for fun and profit since way back in the last millenium. You may find me hanging around in the monestary [perlmonks.org].
What am I working on right now? Probably the Sprog project [sourceforge.net].
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I was testing a web app that assembled PDF documents on-the-fly using the wonderful PDF::Reuse. All went well testing from Mozilla on Linux, but when I tried it from a Windows box running IE, I got this in a dialog box:
Internet Explorer cannot download from the Internet site report.pdf from webtest.
The downloaded file is not available, this could be due to your Security or Language
settings or because the server was unable to retrieve the requested file.
Exactly the same error happened if I right clicked on the link and selected 'Save Target As
Talk about a red herring. The problem turned out to be that Acrobat Reader wasn't installed on the workstation. Duh!
Can't "Save Target As"? (Score:1)
So IE won't let you "Save Target As" unless it knows what kind of file the target is? IE won't download unless it can successfully display a file?
Wow. That's amazing. As much fun as it might be for me to go off on a tear aga