I'm writing a classic HTML 1.1 webapplication. When a user click on a download link, I create a file server side ( should be a long process ~5min ) and send the file to the browser with the header (content-disposition","attachment; filename =
myfile.xlsx ).
If the request is too long, the loading icon on the tab stopped loading. But in fact the request continue to be processed and if the user wait 5 minutes, IE ask to download the file and download it correctly. IE9, and firefox don't have this behaviour and continue to have a loading icon since the request is not finished.
Is someone have the same issue ? and have a workaround ?
Thanks