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POIE8 not displaying XML but giving a popup saying "Do you want to save this file?" Why?
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    copied!<p>I am testing a SOAP service that has a single operation that returns a string containing an XML document. My server and client are implemented in PHP.</p> <p>Here is the source for my client:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php header('Content-Type: text/xml, charset=iso-8859-1'); header("Content-Disposition: inline"); try{ $sClient = new SoapClient('http://localhost/soap/test.wsdl'); $response = $sClient-&gt;getDocument(); echo($response); } catch(SoapFault $e){ var_dump($e); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>And this is the XML returned by the SOAP service and echoed by the client:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?&gt; &lt;root&gt; &lt;form formname="test"&gt; &lt;post postid="2000" userid="bbh" postdate="2011-09-14" posttime="11:03:32"&gt; &lt;item name="Item1" value="123" /&gt; &lt;item name="Item2" value="456" /&gt; &lt;/post&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/root&gt; </code></pre> <p>When I test the SOAP client in Firefox for mac, Firefox for Windows and Safari, the XML returned by the SOAP service is correctly displayed in these browsers. However, when I test it on IE7 (on Windows 2003 Server) I get a blank screen even though I see the XML if I do a view source on the page. When I test it on IE8 (on Windows 7), I get a popup box saying "Do you want to save this file or find a program online to load it?".</p> <p>Does anyone have any idea why the XML is not being displayed correctly in IE7 and IE8?</p> <p>UPDATE:</p> <p>Here are the HTTP headers which I got from Live HTTP headers in Firefox:</p> <pre><code>http://localhost/soap/testclient.php GET /soap/testclient.php HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: PHPSESSID=bo6dlobivah1iaeu6d53vt9s10 Cache-Control: max-age=0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:09:57 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET, PHP/5.2.1 Content-Type: text/xml, charset=iso-8859-1 </code></pre>
 

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