A weird problem of Reporting Service

My company is using SQL 2000, Reporting Service SP2, Server 2003, .NET framework 1.1.

We have an ASP.NET application, working properly on one of our test machine, but when we test on another test machine, it would have the following problem:

When we want to view the PDF or EXCEL report generated by Reporting Services, we get prompted to download an ASPX file. If we choose [Open], it will use Visual Studio.NET to open it. But if we choose [Save], and change the extenstion name, it's actually the correct report file.

That means, the report is generated correctly, but we can't open it.

We have added the Content-Disposition to indicate a correct extension name, but that machine still have this weird problem. Frustrately, it works perfectly on our another machine, even without Content-Disposition.

So, we are thinking probably it's related some file system security configuration. Could anyone give me a little hint about it?

Thank you very much!

Hi, we have the same problem. Did you get anywhere with this?|||are u still looking for answer of it?

that's because the server turns on the http compression, stupid IE doesn't understand it.

one thing to work it around is, turn off the compression for aspx, it might affect too much. If that's a concern, change your report generator file from ASPX to another extension, then that extension file won't have compression on. And you can enable asp.net to handle that new extension, which is only used to generate report.

this just works fine for us
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