Re: .exe files download under IIS 6

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From: Ken Schaefer (kenREMOVE_at_THISadOpenStatic.com)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:42:54 +1000

No, do not allow "all unknown CGI extensions".

You do not want to offer the capability of *executing* these things on the
server. You want to allow clients to download them. Best to add the MIME
type.

Cheers
Ken

"John Cesta" <lists@lookwww.com> wrote in message
news:200442385837.002660@poolfact...

You need to allow all cgi extensions via the web server extensions
function in IIS or add the mime type manually.

Check your mime types. You need one for exe as octet-stream. You can
either create it manually or set your cgi extensions to allow.

John Cesta

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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:58:18 -0400, Tom Kaminski [MVP] wrote:
> "Hrvoje Vrbanc" <hrvojev@recro.hr> wrote in message
> news:ewDncPSKEHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> what is necessary to enable HTTP download of EXE files under IIS
>> 6/Win Srv
>> 2003? I have an application that offers ZIP and EXE files for
>> download.
> ZIP
>> files are downloaded fine but when I try to download EXE files, I
>> get the
>> "Page not found" error.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326965

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