When you set the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content type of a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or Active Server Pages (ASP) file to stream data back to Excel inside Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the file contains <IMG> (image) tags with relative URL paths, Excel may encounter an access violation when you attempt to download the associated image file.
If you are using Excel 2000, you may receive the following error message:
The instruction at '0x3009992b' referenced memory '0x000002b8'. The memory could not be 'read'.
If you are using Excel 2002, you may receive the following error message:
Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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To see what data this error report contains, click here.
When you click to see the data in the error report, the report states that the error is with Excel.exe, at offset 000fdfdb.