This is just a quick note to document a fix for a horrendous bug in Adobe Reader that causes downloads to fail if they are being served from a Windows Server 2008 machine. It has been plaguing me for weeks, before I even knew it was a bug! The last time I needed help with something I ended up finding the solution on my own blog, so hopefully if I encounter it again, I'll end up here. Hello future self!
Anyway, the details of the bug are discussed in depth on the iis.net forum, but the basic summary is that ...