Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] URGENT! IIS only serving partial href-exe files

[Chris Kinsman]

Have you tried increasing the IE connection limit above the default two?
This sounds very much like a problem we ran into...

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[ADVANCED-DOTNET] URGENT! IIS only serving partial href-exe files

[Dave Adair]

Here's the situation:  when I launch a .NET WinForms .exe over http by
directly typing in the url it works every time.  When I launch it via a
hyperlink sometimes it works but usually it doesn't.

I tcpTraced this and what is happening is that when it is launched via the
link the .exe only gets partially downloaded.  Each subsequent click on the
link downloads another 4076 bytes or so.

Anyone know why IIS would only be partially serving out the .exe?  The only
difference between the GET that works and the GET that doesn't is the one
that doesn't work has a Referer: line and the case of the filename is
slightly different (but I tried matching it in the url-direct method of
launching it and it still worked).

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