"Permission Denied" Error Message When You Access an HTML Element After Saving a File to a Disk (306673)

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Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1 and later versions display an "Error on page/Permission denied" script error message when you access HTML elements from a script. This error occurs under the following conditions:

Frames are being used.
The frame in which the script error occurs is being used to navigate to an URL that sends back a file by using a "Content-Type" and "Content-Disposition" header. Upon receiving the file, the user chooses to save the file to disk.

WORKAROUND

You can work around this issue by using a dedicated (hidden) IFRAME to navigate to the ASP page that sends back the file by using a "Content-Type" and "Content-Disposition" header:

 
==========  file frame.htm
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
<!--

function bclick() 
{
thidden.value=parseInt(thidden.value) + 1;
navframe.location='download.asp'
//window.navigate('download.asp');
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<IFRAME type=hidden src='' style='display: none;' name='navframe'></IFRAME>

<INPUT type="button" value="Button" id=button1 name=button1 onclick="bclick()">
<input value='0' name='thidden'>
</BODY>
</HTML>

"Permission Denied" Error Message When You Access an HTML Element After Saving a File to a Disk (306673)

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