[Xymon] 4.2.3 getting save/run dialog from "Client Data" link in IE only.

[Xymon User in Richmond]

On Tue, December 6, 2011 13:05, Henrik Størner wrote:
> On 06-12-2011 17:32, Xymon User in Richmond wrote:
>> 4.3 has been backburnered here for a while, so still on 4.2.3.  Just
>> found that IE (7) gives me the "Do you want to run or save" popup for
>> "Client Data", i.e. bb-hostsvc.sh.  It works fine in Firefox, and all
>> of the other cgi-bin stuff works fine in both.  bb-hostsvc.sh is 755
>> like all the other scripts.  Was this a known issue?  Patched?
>
> Blame IE, I'm afraid - it should look at the content-type returned before
> asking what to do with the data.
>
> It works here (4.3.6 + IE 8), but I don't have a 4.2.x system to test it
> with.
>
>
Thanks.  I guess MS is trying to make up for the older versions of IE that
fixed broken pages by having later versions break correct ones.

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the Xymon server.