IIS Server - Please Help! - Files w/o extensions

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Please Help! - Files w/o extensions

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2004-01-24, 1:45 am

I have a file that I'm trying to access via web. ie. www.mydomain/myfile. There is no extension on my file. I want the user to be prompted with the familiar open...close...save..download dialog box. This use to work with NT 4. I've since move the site
to a Win2003 server. Why doesn't this work anymore?

Roland Hall

2004-01-24, 1:46 am

"Cory" wrote:
: I have a file that I'm trying to access via web. ie. www.mydomain/myfile.
There is no extension on my file. I want the user to be prompted with the
familiar open...close...save..download dialog box. This use to work with NT
4. I've since move the site to a Win2003 server. Why doesn't this work
anymore?

Cory...

Please provide more information. Nobody answered the first time you asked
this question because it is quite vague. It appears to be something to do
with MIME types so the file would be requested to save when the browser is
unfamiliar with it or IS familiar with it, but since I don't use files
without extensions, it is not something that is obvious. I'm not even sure
how to associate a file based on extension with no extension. Have you
tried putting a (.) dot at the end. Generally, www.domain.com/myfile would
be a subdirectory and the browser would then look for a default document,
not finding one and redirecting the user to the 404 error document.

'Why this doesn't work anymore' is not clear to us. What is happening? Do
you get an error? Since we cannot see your site we need you to fill in the
blanks.

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Paul Lynch

2004-01-24, 1:46 am

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:56:24 -0800, "Cory"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

quote:

>I have a file that I'm trying to access via web. ie. www.mydomain/myfile. There is no extension on my file. I want the user to be prompted with the familiar open...close...save..download dialog box. This use to work with NT 4. I've since move the sit

e to a Win2003 server. Why doesn't this work anymore?

Cory,

Read this KB article. There are security implications in doing this -
configuring the MIME type I mean, not reading the article ;-)

IIS 6.0 Does Not Serve Unknown MIME Types
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326965

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE