Re: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2012-01-05 Thread Blasko, Margo
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Re: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2012-01-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Blasko, Margo margo.bla...@dcc-cdc.gc.ca wrote: Entered application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document as the .docx MIME type in ISS 4.0 on a Windows 2000 server. Unfortuantely the docx documents still will not open. The error is 'Word

Re: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2011-12-22 Thread Erik Goldoff
Win 2000 and IIS 4 ??? ouch ! How could docx not be compatible with an end of life'd unsupported system ? sorry for sarcasm On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Blasko, Margo margo.bla...@dcc-cdc.gc.cawrote: All, Entered application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

RE: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2011-12-22 Thread Damien Solodow
and .docx MIME types Win 2000 and IIS 4 ??? ouch ! How could docx not be compatible with an end of life'd unsupported system ? sorry for sarcasm On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Blasko, Margo margo.bla...@dcc-cdc.gc.camailto:margo.bla...@dcc-cdc.gc.ca wrote: All, Entered application

Re: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2011-12-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Blasko, Margo margo.bla...@dcc-cdc.gc.ca wrote: Entered application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document as the .docx MIME type in ISS 4.0 on a Windows 2000 server.   The server was then rebooted. Unfortuantely the docx documents

Re: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2011-12-22 Thread Jeff Bunting
Sounds like IIS is successfully serving the file if Word is complaining about the format. Could the document be from a different (prob. older) version of word? Rather than opening, can you save the file locally and try extension as .doc and see if Word will open. Jeff On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at

Re: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2011-12-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Blasko, Margo margo.bla...@dcc-cdc.gc.ca wrote: This is an intranet site that I don't manage - not sure what you mean about 'What HTTP headers is the web server offering when you HEAD the URL'. HEAD is one of the HTTP commands (methods). It gets headers