IE downloads and installs CAB dialog popup upon every page refresh

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Published on 2009-01-09T16:25:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 11:04 UTC
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I have a signed cab on an aspx page. I am seeing the following inconsistent behavior. Any insights would be highly appreciated.

  1. On some machines, the cab is downloaded and installed on every page refresh.
  2. On few of those machines, the IE "install cab" dialog pops up on every page refresh, while on the others it pops up only once.

Additional info:

  1. The CAB contains a .NET DLL
  2. The CAB is slightly large (around 30 MB), hence recurring download behavior is a pain

Target browsers are IE6 and IE7, and the behavior is common to both!

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