When trying to open almost any media in Internet Explorer:

"The file you are downloading cannot be opened by the default program. It is
either corrupted or it has an incorrect file type. As a security precaution,
it is recommended that you cancel the download."


That's obviously a lie, since if i save it to my hard-drive, it in fact CAN
be opened by the default program (i.e. double-clicking). So, it is not
corrupted nor does it have an incorrect file type.

So what gives?


Example
http://www.sog10.com/fprotect/galle...381318182216380

Send
====
GET /fprotect/gallery01/fr025_11/m01.mpg?381318182216380 HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword,
*/*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50215; Avalon 6.0.5070; WinFX RunTime 3.0.50215)
Host: www.sog10.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

Response
========
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Zeus/3.4
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:42:22 GMT
Content-Length: 1892356
Status: 200
Content-Type: video/mpeg
Last-Modified: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:08:25 GMT

From the server:
Content-Type: video/mpeg

From my registry:
HKCR\MIME\Database\Content Type\video/mpeg
Extension: mpeg

HKCR\.mpeg
(defaut): mpegfile
Content Type: video/mpeg

HKCR\mpegfile\shell\open\command
(defautl): "C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\mplayerc.exe" "%1"

That's all that ie needs to know. If i double-click the clip it runs
fine. The content type supplied by the server matches the content type of
mpeg defined by my system.

i am not the only person to have this SP2 related problem.
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And, your IIS question is?

"Ian Boyd" <admin@SWIFTPA.NET> wrote in message
news:O9AMw7jAGHA.3456@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| When trying to open almost any media in Internet Explorer:
|
| "The file you are downloading cannot be opened by the default program. It
is
| either corrupted or it has an incorrect file type. As a security
precaution,
| it is recommended that you cancel the download."
|
|
| That's obviously a lie, since if i save it to my hard-drive, it in fact
CAN
| be opened by the default program (i.e. double-clicking). So, it is not
| corrupted nor does it have an incorrect file type.
|
| So what gives?
|
|
| Example
| http://www.sog10.com/fprotect/galle...381318182216380
|
| Send
| ====
| GET /fprotect/gallery01/fr025_11/m01.mpg?381318182216380 HTTP/1.1
| Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
| application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel,
application/msword,
| */*
| Accept-Language: en-us
| Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
| User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET
CLR
| 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50215; Avalon 6.0.5070; WinFX RunTime 3.0.50215)
| Host: www.sog10.com
| Connection: Keep-Alive
|
| Response
| ========
| HTTP/1.1 200 OK
| Server: Zeus/3.4
| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:42:22 GMT
| Content-Length: 1892356
| Status: 200
| Content-Type: video/mpeg
| Last-Modified: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:08:25 GMT
|
| From the server:
|   Content-Type: video/mpeg
|
| From my registry:
|    HKCR\MIME\Database\Content Type\video/mpeg
|       Extension: mpeg
|
|   HKCR\.mpeg
|        (defaut): mpegfile
|       Content Type: video/mpeg
|
|    HKCR\mpegfile\shell\open\command
|        (defautl): "C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\mplayerc.exe"
"%1"
|
| That's all that ie needs to know. If i double-click the clip it runs
| fine. The content type supplied by the server matches the content type of
| mpeg defined by my system.
|
| i am not the only person to have this SP2 related problem.
| http://tinyurl.com/76g88
| http://tinyurl.com/dcodf
| http://tinyurl.com/7dpwx
| http://tinyurl.com/89vsy
| http://tinyurl.com/7scdh
| http://tinyurl.com/d5emn
| http://tinyurl.com/8uxrc
| http://tinyurl.com/9q6nd
| http://tinyurl.com/b3wxv
| http://tinyurl.com/7bvq2
| http://tinyurl.com/884m3
| http://tinyurl.com/dz6v9
| http://tinyurl.com/bb8on
| http://tinyurl.com/8mo3k
| http://tinyurl.com/af2sm
| http://tinyurl.com/aqxva
| http://tinyurl.com/czcnc
| http://tinyurl.com/9ts29
| http://tinyurl.com/7mtsn
| http://tinyurl.com/a6tyv
| http://tinyurl.com/cl3w9
| http://tinyurl.com/9wjb6
| http://tinyurl.com/9hwtm
| http://tinyurl.com/8lrxl
| http://tinyurl.com/c6hhp
| http://tinyurl.com/dvt9r
| http://tinyurl.com/ap3sb
| http://tinyurl.com/chfkd
| http://tinyurl.com/83j78
| http://tinyurl.com/bl9oc
| http://tinyurl.com/7lwpo
| http://tinyurl.com/9ebhq
| http://tinyurl.com/aahdr
| http://tinyurl.com/7enyw
| http://tinyurl.com/97yry
| http://tinyurl.com/8asvx
| http://tinyurl.com/dkv76
| http://tinyurl.com/8pfch
| http://tinyurl.com/8uuub
| http://tinyurl.com/bjfze
| http://tinyurl.com/7k5jq
| http://tinyurl.com/b4t3u
| http://tinyurl.com/cu7sw
| http://tinyurl.com/dqdpx
| http://tinyurl.com/7csty
| http://tinyurl.com/cmv57
| http://tinyurl.com/89yp2
| http://tinyurl.com/aydh4
| http://tinyurl.com/d4hjo
| http://tinyurl.com/afwvl
| http://tinyurl.com/9yj97
| http://tinyurl.com/dffmc
| http://tinyurl.com/8jwrn
| http://tinyurl.com/98sww
| http://tinyurl.com/9orzv
|
|

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> And, your IIS question is?

IIS is a web-server.
Web-servers send files to clients.
It is a "security" feature that is preventing a lot of people from properly
receiving files from a web-server.

What hotfix can be applied to IIS4,5,6+ so that files no longer have "an
incorrect file type" as indicated by the IIS server?

>
> "Ian Boyd" <admin@SWIFTPA.NET> wrote in message
> news:O9AMw7jAGHA.3456@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> | When trying to open almost any media in Internet Explorer:
> |
> | "The file you are downloading cannot be opened by the default program.
> It
> is
> | either corrupted or it has an incorrect file type. As a security
> precaution,
> | it is recommended that you cancel the download."
> |
> |
> | That's obviously a lie, since if i save it to my hard-drive, it in fact
> CAN
> | be opened by the default program (i.e. double-clicking). So, it is not
> | corrupted nor does it have an incorrect file type.
> |
> | So what gives?
> |
> |
> | Example
> | http://www.sog10.com/fprotect/galle...381318182216380
> |
> | Send
> | ====
> | GET /fprotect/gallery01/fr025_11/m01.mpg?381318182216380 HTTP/1.1
> | Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
> | application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel,
> application/msword,
> | */*
> | Accept-Language: en-us
> | Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> | User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET
> CLR
> | 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50215; Avalon 6.0.5070; WinFX RunTime 3.0.50215)
> | Host: www.sog10.com
> | Connection: Keep-Alive
> |
> | Response
> | ========
> | HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> | Server: Zeus/3.4
> | Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:42:22 GMT
> | Content-Length: 1892356
> | Status: 200
> | Content-Type: video/mpeg
> | Last-Modified: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:08:25 GMT
> |
> | From the server:
> |   Content-Type: video/mpeg
> |
> | From my registry:
> |    HKCR\MIME\Database\Content Type\video/mpeg
> |       Extension: mpeg
> |
> |   HKCR\.mpeg
> |        (defaut): mpegfile
> |       Content Type: video/mpeg
> |
> |    HKCR\mpegfile\shell\open\command
> |        (defautl): "C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\mplayerc.exe"
> "%1"
> |
> | That's all that ie needs to know. If i double-click the clip it runs
> | fine. The content type supplied by the server matches the content type
> of
> | mpeg defined by my system.
> |
> | i am not the only person to have this SP2 related problem.
> | http://tinyurl.com/76g88
> | http://tinyurl.com/dcodf
> | http://tinyurl.com/7dpwx
> | http://tinyurl.com/89vsy
> | http://tinyurl.com/7scdh
> | http://tinyurl.com/d5emn
> | http://tinyurl.com/8uxrc
> | http://tinyurl.com/9q6nd
> | http://tinyurl.com/b3wxv
> | http://tinyurl.com/7bvq2
> | http://tinyurl.com/884m3
> | http://tinyurl.com/dz6v9
> | http://tinyurl.com/bb8on
> | http://tinyurl.com/8mo3k
> | http://tinyurl.com/af2sm
> | http://tinyurl.com/aqxva
> | http://tinyurl.com/czcnc
> | http://tinyurl.com/9ts29
> | http://tinyurl.com/7mtsn
> | http://tinyurl.com/a6tyv
> | http://tinyurl.com/cl3w9
> | http://tinyurl.com/9wjb6
> | http://tinyurl.com/9hwtm
> | http://tinyurl.com/8lrxl
> | http://tinyurl.com/c6hhp
> | http://tinyurl.com/dvt9r
> | http://tinyurl.com/ap3sb
> | http://tinyurl.com/chfkd
> | http://tinyurl.com/83j78
> | http://tinyurl.com/bl9oc
> | http://tinyurl.com/7lwpo
> | http://tinyurl.com/9ebhq
> | http://tinyurl.com/aahdr
> | http://tinyurl.com/7enyw
> | http://tinyurl.com/97yry
> | http://tinyurl.com/8asvx
> | http://tinyurl.com/dkv76
> | http://tinyurl.com/8pfch
> | http://tinyurl.com/8uuub
> | http://tinyurl.com/bjfze
> | http://tinyurl.com/7k5jq
> | http://tinyurl.com/b4t3u
> | http://tinyurl.com/cu7sw
> | http://tinyurl.com/dqdpx
> | http://tinyurl.com/7csty
> | http://tinyurl.com/cmv57
> | http://tinyurl.com/89yp2
> | http://tinyurl.com/aydh4
> | http://tinyurl.com/d4hjo
> | http://tinyurl.com/afwvl
> | http://tinyurl.com/9yj97
> | http://tinyurl.com/dffmc
> | http://tinyurl.com/8jwrn
> | http://tinyurl.com/98sww
> | http://tinyurl.com/9orzv
> |
> |
>
>

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