Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/zip:

Question

I'm unable to successfully download a file from the server using a Web API get call. The download seems to start but then Chrome throws:

"Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/zip"

Firefox doesn't say that but the download still fails.

What am I doing wrong in the following setup?:

    [HttpGet, Route("api/extractor/downloadresults")]
    public HttpResponseMessage DownloadResultFiles()
    {
        int contentLength = 0;
        this.ResultFiles.ForEach(f => contentLength = contentLength + f.FileSize);

        var streamContent = new PushStreamContent((outputStream, httpContext, transportContent) =>
        {
           ...zip files...
        });

        streamContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/zip");
        streamContent.Headers.ContentLength = contentLength;
        streamContent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment")
        {
            FileName = "result.zip"
        };

        var response = Request.CreateResponse();

        response.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK;
        response.Content = streamContent;
    }

I trigger the download via:

  window.location.href = "api/extractor/downloadresults";

With the resulting headers:

Request Headers

  Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
  Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
  Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
  Connection:keep-alive
  Cookie:ASP.NET_SessionId=ibwezezeutmu2gpajfnpf41p
  Host:localhost:47384
  Referer:http://localhost:47384/
  User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36

Response Headers

  Cache-Control:no-cache
  Content-Disposition:attachment; filename=result.zip
  Content-Length:436102
  Content-Type:application/zip
  Date:Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:36:31 GMT
  Expires:-1
  Persistent-Auth:true
  Pragma:no-cache
  Server:Microsoft-IIS/8.0
  X-AspNet-Version:4.0.30319
  X-Powered-By:ASP.NET
  X-SourceFiles:=?UTF-8?B?QzpcbmV3VG9vbGJveFxUb29sYm94XFRvb2xib3guV2ViXGFwaVx0ZXJtZXh0cmFjdG9yXGRvd25sb2FkcmVzdWx0ZmlsZXM=?=

Solution

Have you tried changing the request headers, for example the accept header?

Also, here you can find a similar question, some of the solutions suggested there may help you.