IIS6 HTTP Compression/CSV Export issues

I’ve been investigating this problem for a couple of days and hope that this post would save others some grief. Here’s the situation: 2 web servers, same configuration (at least that’s what it seemed), and on one server I can successfully export data to a downloadable CSV file but on the other server the CSV export downloads as an ASPX page instead of the CSV file. Seems strange when all configurations on the server is supposedly the same. After several unsuccessful comparisons of configuration settings …etc I’ve gone down to the level of analyzing the HTTP…

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