I have an odd problem in my office. I have an attorney who is trying to download an excel file that is posted on this site (it's the first "By clicking here" link).

Clicking on that link opens a new window that contains a page with nothing but a bit of javascript that pops up the download for the file. In IE, this brings up the wonderful "Information bar." So I tell it to allow popups for this site. But when I try again, the javascript always pops up a new little window, but it just closes right away and never asks about saving the file.

It works properly in Firefox, so what's wrong with IE (besides everything else wrong with IE)? It seems like a dumb method to offer a file for download, but this seems to be an application issue.

For the time being I've been able to view the source to find the URL for the excel file, and download the document for him. I don't want to do that every week, though.

Thanks for your help.