Microsoft Knowledge Base Email Alertz

(288440) - When you use Microsoft Windows 2000 or a workstation with Office 2000 Service Release 1 or later, and you drag an item out of a Web folder onto the desktop or into Windows Explorer, the file may appear in the target location but may have lost its...

Search KbAlertz

Advanced Search

Receive Microsoft Knowledge Base articles by E-Mail?

Every night we scan the Microsoft Knowledge Base. If technologies you're interested in are updated, we'll send you an e-mail. You only get one e-mail a day, and only when new articles are added.

Click here to create a
FREE account
Already have an account?
[Click here to Login]











Microsoft Knowledge Base Article

This article contents is Microsoft Copyrighted material.
©2005-©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Trademarks

Article ID: 288440 - Last Review: January 31, 2007 - Revision: 4.3

BUG: Drag-and-drop operation from a Web folder to Explorer produces a 0-byte file

System TipThis article applies to a different version of Windows than the one you are using. Content in this article may not be relevant to you. Visit the Windows Vista Solution Center
This article was previously published under Q288440

SYMPTOMS

When you use Microsoft Windows 2000 or a workstation with Office 2000 Service Release 1 or later, and you drag an item out of a Web folder onto the desktop or into Windows Explorer, the file may appear in the target location but may have lost its content so that the file size is 0 bytes.

CAUSE

The problem only occurs if the Web folder uses Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) for the file transfer and the server issues a 302 redirection when it is asked for the file contents. The problem is specific to the version of the WebDAV protocol handler that ships in build 8.103.2402 of the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing (MSDAIPP.DLL). No other build has this problem.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The problem does not normally occur with Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0 WebDAV servers, but has been reported with Apache WebDAV servers. This is because IIS normally adds a "Cache-Control: no-cache" header to the HTTP response when it handles a 302 redirection from a WebDAV request. The presence of this header can prevent the problem in most cases. However, Microsoft has received reports that this header does not prevent the problem for all versions of Internet Explorer; therefore, the addition of this header is not considered a viable workaround.

Customers who require the latest build of MSDAIPP can contact Microsoft Technical Support to obtain a copy. The latest public release build is 8.103.2519, which ships with Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me).

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing 1.5
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition
Keywords: 
kbbug kbnofix kbprovider kbwebfolder KB288440
       

Community Feedback System

Very often, it takes hours to solve a problem. Very often, you've looked high and low, and have tried a lot of solutions. When you finally found it, chances are, it was because someone else helped you. Here's your chance to give back. Use our community feedback tool to let others know what worked for you and what didn't.

Please also understand that the community feedback system is not warranted to be correct, it's simply a system that we've built to let people try and help each other. If something in a feedback response doesn't make sense to you, or you're not comfortable making changes that the feedback talks about (like registry edits), please consult a professional.

Thank you for using kbAlertz.com Feedback System.

-- Scott Cate