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Hi All - Have been working this issue on and off for a few weeks, including a significant amount of searching with no luck. &nbsp;<br />
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In short, when using SSRS on a company intranet, any IE 6 user who tries to export a report to Excel or any other format receives the following message after about 2 min:<br />
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Internet Explorer cannot download X.X from X.server<br />
The connection with the server was reset.<br />
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This does not occur for IE 8 users so it must be some way in which IE 6 processes the HTTP request. The SSRS logs show that the report was sucessfully rendered, it is just never makes it through IE 6 into a file.<br />
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This MS KB article doesn't solve the problem. <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958479/en-us" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958479/en-us</a><br />
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Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!<br />

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Hi All - Have been working this issue on and off for a few weeks, including a significant amount of searching with no luck.  

In short, when using SSRS on a company intranet, any IE 6 user who tries to export a report to Excel or any other format receives the following message after about 2 min:

Internet Explorer cannot download X.X from X.server
The connection with the server was reset.

This does not occur for IE 8 users so it must be some way in which IE 6 processes the HTTP request. The SSRS logs show that the report was sucessfully rendered, it is just never makes it through IE 6 into a file.


This MS KB article doesn't solve the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958479/en-us

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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