Bug in OW3 Beta9 (HTTP Error 406 with Microsoft-IIS/4.0 server)????

[Juergen Moellenhoff]

Hi,

it seems that it is impossible to download files with OW3 Beta9 from a Web-Server that runs Microsoft-IIS/4.0!!! Try to download http://www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/andale32.exe

The error I get is always:

HTTP Error 406

406 Not Acceptable

The resource identified by the request can only generate response entities that have content characteristics that are "not acceptable" according to the Accept headers sent in the request.



That's the output from the OmniWeb-Console:

Apr 23 14:04:10  http Tx: GET http://www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/andale32.exe HTTP/1.1
Referer: http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/mac.htm
User-Agent: OmniWeb/3.0-beta-9 OWF/1999B
Host: www.microsoft.com
Accept: image/x-table, image/tiff, image/jpeg, application/postscript, image/x-xbitmap, application/futuresplash, image/xpm, application/x-shockwave-flash, image/png, image/gif, image/x-xtable, image/x-immatrix, image/x-immatrixd, application/rtf, image/x-rib, text/plain, text/html, image/x-portable-anymap
Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress
Accept-Language: de, en, fr, es, it, sv
Proxy-Authorization: Basic anVyZ2VuOnNvbmljOTQ=
Cookie: MC1=GUID=4c581885238511d2a20400805fa77b97


Apr 23 14:04:15  http Rx: HTTP/1.0 406 No acceptable objects were found
Apr 23 14:04:15  Rx: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/andale32.exe
Apr 23 14:04:15  http://www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/andale32.exe (HTTP): No acceptable objects were found: Server returns "No acceptable objects were found"
Apr 23 14:04:15  Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Apr 23 14:04:15  Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:04:16 GMT
Apr 23 14:04:15  Content-Length: 536
Apr 23 14:04:15  Content-Type: text/html


I have no problems to download the file via Lynx, Netscape or IE!! I checked some Web-Servers which use the Microsoft-IIS/4.0 product and I got always the same error 406 when I try to download files!!

What's the problem? Is there a workaround for this "bug"???

Bye,

	Jürgen
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