Basic Authentication repeats when downloading a file in IE - asp.net

i have a site using Basic Authetication, tied to our Active Directory. everything works fine, except in IE8 when i click on a link to download a file the authetication windows pops up again. i can cancel and it lets me download it with no problem.
why is it repeating since i am already authenticated? is there a way to get rid of it? I am unable to replicate it on any other browser. can't seem to find anything online. anyone else ran into this?

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Server not showing the right file on webpage

I am testing/learning how to send info from a Gravity form to a test file on my website.
I am using a testfile.txt that I added in var/www/ which is the location of the Wordpress directory.
The command I am running updates that file and I am able to see its contents when i go to the domain: mywebsite.com/testfile.txt.
The first time I run the Gravity form, I can see the changes on the webpage. However, after updating its contents to something else, the webpage does not update despite reloading it.
To troubleshoot this, I SSH'd into the server to see if the file was being updated and indeed it was...
So, basically, the file is being updated on the server but not on my GoDaddy domain... Has anybody encountered a problem like this? And if so does anyone have a solution?
I am no Expert in this field, Beginner to be honest. When I was learning Python flask a framework for building website, I had similar issue. Maybe the problem is that, when you visit your website it loads from the cache. To solve that press 'ctrl + F5', it forces a cache refresh, and will guarantee that IF the content is changed, you will get the new content. Again, I am beginner myself.
As #Sadman said, whenever I don't see my content getting updated I do a hard refresh or delete the cookies and cache manually. Either one of these solved my problem. To make a hard refresh press ctrl+shift+r or ctrl+f5 or shift+f5 on windows. On MAC this is cmd+R. I hope this helps!

Troubleshoot ASP.net WebForms download file problem

In my webpage, I have a download button will write excel to response and it work previously. But I got a problem today that browser on client (tested IE and Chrome) cannot download exported excel from ASP.net webforms suddenly without changing code and software install.
When I test in Chrome, console show that Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet.
I used the notepad to open the downloaded excel and the content become the my web html page.
I tried to login server and use the browser in server, the file can be download normally with correct content.
I have tried to copy the web folder to another server and iis setup, it show same behavior that the downloaded excel become html content of my page on client browser but work in server browser.
May I have any idea how to troubleshoot on this case please?
Thanks
Are you facing this issue on a domain/managed network? If yes, are you the administrator of the network? If that's not the case, please give these suggestions a try:
If you’re using an antivirus or firewall software, make sure Chrome
is trusted or allowed by these programs. You can also try
temporarily disabling your antivirus or firewall to see if this
resolves the issue.
Just to make sure we eliminate malware from the
scenario, please follow the steps from this help article.
Try resetting the Chrome browser to see if that helps.
Also, creating a new user profile on your Chrome can be helpful.
If the issue persists, download and run Chrome Canary. It is the
cutting edge developer version of Chrome that can be installed
alongside Stable Chrome. It's possible the problem won't exist on a
future version.
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Why is my site requesting (unsuccessfully) a font from an unrelated site

In my deployed website, I'm seeing this in the logs in Firefox:
My site has nothing to do with abc.net.au (although that is a site I browse often).
I've grepped my deployed code to be sure, and there are definitely no references anywhere that I can see that would be causing it to try to load these font files.
Clicking on the source code link doesn't reveal anything useful (just the index.html page).
Perhaps it's some kind of plugin going wrong?
How can I diagnose and fix the cause of these inappropriate font requests?
The first thing I'd do is make sure that the lines come from content requested from your website. You have 2 ways to do that:
Create a new Firefox profile, start it, close all the tabs and just leave 1 blank tab. Open the logs, clear them and then open your website. If the font line is not here, then it might have been a bogus log line.
On your original Firefox or new profile, open a new tab. Open up the Network Monitoring tool and then open your page. Look for the font entry in the network request. Unfortunately, it's not yet possible (see this) to break on specific network requests in the Firefox dev tools.
From there, I would go and check the source code depending on my findings. Keep us posted!
Update: this sounds like bug 1420680.

Firebug shows 404 error for claro_rtl.css, but I can't find the source that is trying to reference that file

I'm in the middle of testing a customized Dojo theme based on the popular claro theme. The new theme is named 'jelam'. I've gone through all the suggested steps for making a new theme based on an existing theme like claro and all seems to be working fine - except Firebug is reporting an error immediately upon opening my page. It reports that it can't find the claro_rtl.css file. The thing is, I've searched many times my source code and files for any reference to that claro_rtl.css file, but I can't find it. I suspected initially that my browser was cacheing it somehow, so I cleared the Firefox browser, closed Firefox and ropened it, and also restarted the WebSphere portal which is serving my JSP page. Despite those attempts to clear out any reference to claro_rtl.css, I'm still getting the error reported in Firebug.
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - https://localhost:10149/CompassThemesURS/themes/html/commonurs/dojo/1.9.1/dijit/themes/jelam/claro_rtl.css"
How can I get Firebug to show me what the source of that request is? I had initially suspected that I had missed it in one of my many JSP files or CSS files that was possibly importing it, but it's not showing up.
Is there a way to get Firebug to show me who is trying to pull that file in?
Thanks for any insight you can give.
Finally figured it out. In Firebug I put "claro_rtl.css" in the search box, then performed the search in each tab until the search found it from the CSS tab, and it found it referenced in the new jelam.css file.
I had forgotten to redeploy the webapp. I had correctly updated the source files, including jelam.css, but I hadn't redeployed with those updates like I thought I had.
Cheers.

IIS express suddenly not displaying web page

Perhaps someone can help me figure out what's going on.
I'm running VS 2013 and working on a Web Forms application (not an MVC app). I'm using the templates that came down, including all the cool FriendlyUrls functionality. I've been working on this website for several weeks without any problem.
Today, for no apparent reason, one of my pages stopped working. When I attempted to view it, I got an error message that the server was not configured to list directories. My web page does not attempt to list the contents of any directory. It just has some images and some relatively simple Javascript (which does not attempt to enumerate anything).
The error message suggested I run the following command in the IIS Express directory:
appcmd set config /section:system.webServer/directoryBrowse /enabled:true
Just for the sake of experimenting, I ran that command. Now when I attempt to view the page, I get something that looks like this (the page is named Menus.aspx)
localhost - /Menus/
[To Parent Directory]
Clicking on "To Parent Directory" takes me to the home page, as one might expect.
I created a new page, Menus2.aspx, and copied all of the code from Menus.aspx into Menus2.aspx, and Menus2 runs fine. In addition, when I upload the site to Azure, Menus works correctly (as does Menus2). So I think my code is innocent of any wrongdoing.
I then deleted Menus.aspx and renamed Menus2.aspx to Menus.aspx, and I'm back to the same problem.
I was working in a git branch, and reverted back to master to see if at least my original configuration would work, but now even in master I can't get the page to come up.
So it looks like the problem is that something got jacked up in my local configuration, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. I have exited VS and rebooted the machine in hopes that the problem will disappear as mysteriously as it started, but no luck.
Every other page in the site (6 so far) works fine. It's just this one, with this name.
So my options at this point are to simply not have a page named Menus.aspx in my project because the name has somehow become cursed, or do all of my testing by uploading to the server and seeing how it works up there, which is a pain and should not be necessary.
Can someone suggest how and where I should start looking for what happened here? This isn't the problem I expected to be working on today.
Thanks in advance.
-Rob

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