Also check your proxy server settings because a proxy might be the culprit too. So if you are facing such issue with IE, check your Timeout in nfig file to check the parameters locally and globally.

On the Security tab, click the Trusted Sites icon. Download Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP - IE8 takes the Web experience beyond the page and introduces a new way to seamlessly experience the power of the Web. So if the user clicked the save or open in 3 seconds, they are good to go or they received a truncated/corrupted zip file. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Internet Options. This download is for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 only. In my case, our organization had a global config file for the Apache HTTPD server serving the content with Timeout=3. Supports multimedia, java scripts and when you add plug-ins, also other formats. Once you hit download link, it will wait for the user to respond to the popup box with open, save or cancel to start downloading the file. Mozilla and Chrome being the smart guys, start downloading the files at your click to the download link before you hit save, open or cancel and deletes the downloaded file if you hit cancel. Still want to download Internet Explorer 11 Though its no longer supported, you can download and install Internet Explorer 11. Once you click a link to download something, you are asked by the browser to save, open or Cancel. If any site you visit needs Internet Explorer 11, you can reload it with Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge. The way IE works is very different than Mozilla Firefox and Chrome. When I posted this question on Stack Overflow, I was expecting a reply soon but any ways I have found the answer to the problem.

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