If you take a look in the lower left hand corner when the open your intranet, and it shows that you are in the local intranet zone, there may be some extra functionality open to you to be able to do because the security settings in the browser are lower, however I can't see Microsoft leaving that security hole deliberately open. Linux people would have a hayday over that one... They already rant and rave about Microsoft products being insecure.
-----Original Message----- From: phumes1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Adding MIME types At 11:11 AM 5/6/2002 -0700, you wrote: >AFAIK, you'd have to build an ActiveX control to do that. I'd >personally be really pissed if I went to a web site that modified my >registry without my permission. It'd be a pretty big security hole in >IE/Netscape if that was allowed. Imagine the damage you could do... Its strickly intranet. >The only other way I could think is to instruct the user to download >the reg file and execute it themselves from your site. > >-----Original Message----- >From: phumes1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:11 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Re: Adding MIME types > > >Hi, > > >Presently I have a .bat file which runs to add mime types into the >registry. I have included my .reg file below. Is there a way to have CF >add these mimetypes rather than have approximately 50-100 users run >this batch file on their PCs? > > >addmimes.bat >--------------------- > >@echo off >reg import mimetypes.reg > > > >mimetypes.reg >--------------------- > >Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dat] >@="UltraEdit.dat" >"Content Type"="text/dat" >"Perceived Type"="text" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dat\PersistentHandler] >@="{eec97550-47a9-11cf-b952-00aa0051fe20}" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\text/dat] >"Extension"=".dat" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat] >@="Text Document" >"Old Default"="DatObject" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell] > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\open] > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\open\command] >@="\"C:\\Program Files\\UltraEdit\\UEDIT32.EXE\" \"%1\"" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\open\ddeexec] >@="[open(\"%1\")]" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\open\ddeexec\Application] >@="UEDIT32" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\open\ddeexec\topic] >@="System" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\print] > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\print\command] >@="\"C:\\Program Files\\UltraEdit\\UEDIT32.EXE\" /p \"%1\"" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\print\ddeexec] >@="[print(\"%1\")]" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\print\ddeexec\Application] >@="UEDIT32" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UltraEdit.dat\shell\print\ddeexec\topic] >@="System" > > >+---------------------------------------------------------------------- >+----- >--------+ > >Philip Humeniuk >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >+---------------------------------------------------------------------- >+----- >---------+ > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists

