Attempting to download from /

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David Burkinshaw

Upon launching IE 6 the File Download dialog box opens up (immediately) and
then an error dialog pops up stating "Internet Explorer cannot download /
from www.msn.com." and the next line reads "Internet Explorer was not able
to open this site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be
found. Please try again later."

I assume that there is some setting somewhere (maybe in the registry) that
it telling IE to download a file from www.msn.com but for some reason the
path was set to / which is making it crash all of the time.

Anyone know where I can find this nuisance?

Thanks in advance,

-David
 
Start here.

Internet Explorer Cannot Download Office Documents from an IIS Server When
Content Expiration Is Set to Expire Immediately
When you try to download Microsoft Office documents from a server running
Internet Information Services (IIS) to a client using Microsoft Internet
Explorer version 6, you may receive the following error messages:
Internet Explorer cannot download File.doc from ServerName.
Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet Site. The requested
site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later."
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317208 (8/6/2002)

Internet Explorer File Downloads Over SSL Do Not Work with the "No-Cache"
Header
Unable to download. Internet Explorer was unable to open this site. The
requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again
later.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323308
 
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