getURL, IE6 and linking to MSWord problem

[AlwaysTrying]

Wondered if anyone has encountered this problem or has a suggestion for a workaround:

When opening new browser windows in Internet Explorer 6 (on WinXP, SP2) and linking to Word documents:

getURL("folder/document.doc", "_blank");

It is necessary to 'Refresh' Internet Explorer to get the document. On opening the new browser window IE produces a 'No page to display' error but on refreshing this page it successfully retrieves the document.

I've seen this error/behaviour reported on Google groups by a couple of people but no one has been able to suggest a solution. Has anyone here experienced this or knows of a suggested workaround which doesn't involve converting Word files to html pages or 'zipping' them etc?

[dipkya]

Hi
I found this weird but temparary work around which may not sound good but atleast user can read what he needs to read from doc file.
I simply open the doc file in word and save as html file.
Now I got one pure html file which can be open from getURL.

Hope this make sense.........but I am not sure about more formatted doc files.
Mine was simple doc file so I changed it to html from word.

Thanks