Problems opening files on Win2003 Server in Tiger

Question

I posted this as a reply to another thread, but got no response; so I am posting in a new thread in hopes of getting some insight.
I am in a largely Windows-based company, but work in a small Mac-based department. We recently relocated into new offices, and the new environment is run on a Windows 2003 server (our old offices were on a Windows 2000 server).
My issue is that when I try to double-click an icon, drag an icon to the Dock, or open with keyboard shortcuts, the application launches, but either a) no file opens, b) the wrong file opens, or c) a file opens that is comprised of a single column of pixel information. The only way I can open a file is via File>Open through the application, and even that does not seem to deter problems b and c (it only works around problem a).
My computer is a PowerMac G5 running OS X 10.4.4 -- oddly, our 10.3.x users do not appear to have this issue. And I never had any problems on the W2K server. So I'm sure there's something with the new 2003 server and 10.4, but I've searched through the threads and didn't see anything exactly like my issue.
Any thoughts? Are there server settings that may have been missed by our IT department? Or is there something I need to set on my Mac? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Krishna,
try to use:
    response->set_header_field( name = 'Content-Type'
                                value = 'application/vnd.ms-excel' ).
to set the correct content type for the file (example above Excel).
Also place the coding in the OnRequest Event and not on the Layout of the page with flow logic. As an alternative you can use a controller with a controller class. In there redefine the method do_request and place the coding for creating the response therein. The coding should look similar to:
*  send back the file
    response->set_header_field( name  = 'Content-Type'
                                value = ls_file-content_type ).
  response->delete_header_field( 'Cache-Control' ).         "#EC NOTEXT
  response->delete_header_field( 'Expires' ).               "#EC NOTEXT
  response->delete_header_field( 'Pragma' ).                "#EC NOTEXT
  CONCATENATE 'inline; filename="' ls_file-name INTO lv_string.
  response->set_header_field( name = 'Content-Disposition'
                              value = lv_string ).
  response->set_data( ls_file-content ).
In the example above lv_string has type string and ls_file is a structure containing strings for name and content-type and an xstring for the file content.
I usually don't set the content length as I have enabled compression and then the icm calculates the content length for me after compression.
Hope that helps.
Best Regards
Michael