ASP.NET MVC FileContentResult IE 8.0 hangs on download

Posted by marc.d on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by marc.d
Published on 2010-04-30T15:06:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 15:07 UTC
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some of my users are expieriencing problems when they try to download a report, the download just hangs on 0%, restarting IE usually fixes the problem.

why does this happen?

i am using ASP.NET MVC (v1), the my action looks like this

<Authorize()> _
<AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)> _
Function RenderReport(ByVal guid As Guid, ByVal anonym As Boolean) As FileContentResult

    ...

    Dim mimeType As String = String.Empty
    Dim renderedBytes() As Byte = EmployeePresentation.Render(guid, mimeType, Server.MapPath("~/Reports/..."), anonym)
    Return File(renderedBytes, mimeType, filename)
End Function

the filename is US-ASCII encoded, filesize is usally around 300Kb, mimeType is application/pdf

tia

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