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I have a user who is getting dropbox links in e-mail for .stp file download (text based 3D CAD file similar to postscript). He's using Windows 7 Pro with Internet Explorer 9. Instead of giving the user a "Save As" dialog to save the file, IE displays the file as a text document in the browser. There's a work around that goes through a not-very-user-friendly 3 to 4 step process, but they'd like 1 step. Is there a way to set IE so that it always opens a "Save As" dialog when a .stp file is clicked or entered into the address bar?

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Right-clicking the link and selecting Save Link As is not good enough? The problem is that either the files are being served with the plain-text content type or else it is being served without any type and IE is detecting it as plain-text. Either way, I can't think of any way to force/trick IE into treating it as a different type on your end (I am familiar with specifying the MIME type on the server side). – Synetech Jan 27 at 21:30
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