Re: Unable to download Excel Files after Running IIS Lockdown

From: Kristofer Gafvert (kgafvert_at_NEWSilopia.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:32:29 +0200

Are you really sure you added the extension to the correct place? If so, did
you restart IIS, it is necessary after editing urlscan.ini 

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"Roland Corbet" <Roland@cyber-media.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uAc%23%23%233UEHA.3692@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> We have a Windows 2000 Standard Server and implemented IIS lockdown,
> including URLscan.
>
> Since doing so it is not possible to download Excel documents from the
> website.
>
> When attempting to download the Excel file, the following error message is
> received:
>
> "Internet Explorer cannot download <filename>.xls from <website name"
>
> "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site.  The requested
> site is either unavailable or cannot be found.  Please try again later."
>
> The file is definitely on the server and we can open it on the server with
> Excel.
>
> If I rename the file to a different extension e.g. MyExcelfile.abc then it
> will download OK.
>
> This seems to indicate that URLScan is getting in the way, however, it
does
> not show a failed attempt to access the Excel document in the URLScan log
> files.
>
> We have added .xls to the allowed extensions in URLScan, but this hasn't
> solved the problem.
>
> Could anyone offer any advice on how to solve this issue, please?
>
> TIA for your time and help.
>
> Roland
>
>
>

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