Get your ISP to turn OFF the EXECUTE rights on this directory. This way the
server cannot execute the .exe file and should send it as a download. If
this is not allowed, consider posting it as a .zip file since most servers
don't have WinZIP installed on them.
--Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Borkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:IIS/CF unable to download .exe files?
Hi PC,
This is probably to do with the MIME-types config of your webserver. The
web-server is probably trying to RUN the exe on the server. Yuck!!
Take a look in your mime.types file, or in your server admin. Look for
which
file extensions are associated with CGI (probably EXE, BAT and CGI). There
are a few ways you can fix this up:
Restrict CGIs to a particular directory.
Change EXE to the application/octet-bitstream MIME type. Remove EXE from
the
CGI list.
I make application/octet-bitstream the default instead of text/html.
Hope that helps,
Best of luck,
Leeb.
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PC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have collocated server that I cannot seem to get to allow a download of an
.exe file.
I know the path is correct and I am trying to use the following link on a CF
page ..
<a href=://mypath/myapplicationname.exe">Get Application</a>
When the link is click -- the browser just waits indefinitely and times
out-- other type of files (suffixes) all seem to come through just fine. Is
there some sort of permissions setting for types of files/suffixes ... on
the server side I should know about -- what am I not doing that I should be?
THX
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