Re: Disabling auto-play of .wmv files

From: Carroll (unknown_at_noplace.com)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:04:44 GMT

You could also Zip the files you want people to download... this will also
in some cases make your movie files smaller for quicker download and it will
allow them to only download them as apposed to play them. 

-- 
Regards,
Carroll
"Nick Poore" <Nick Poore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EFE6E529-3229-4BA1-B49C-F2C5AD9641C7@microsoft.com...
> I'm hoping that somebody can help me here.
>
> I have a Windows 2003 Server running IIS6.
> I have a file (let's say "vacation.wmv') on my website.
> I have a link on the website for the movie, that looks something like
this:
> http://www.mysite.com/vacation.wmv
>
> Whenever somebody clicks on the file, using Internet Explorer, it
> auto-launches Windows Media Player (WMP) and plays the file.
>
> However, I would prefer that they instead get an option to SAVE the file
to
> disk.
> (I know that they can right click on this link, but I want them to be able
> to regular-click on it.)
>
> I have gone into the default server properties, and deleted the .WMV MIME
> type.  When I did this the file was no longer available (I did this as a
> test.)
> I then went into the site properties, and set a new MIME type of ".wmv" to
> "application/octet-stream".  When I do this then the file works again, but
> still launches WMP.
>
> Does anyone know how to make a server side configuration so that every
user
> will get prompted to save the file, and it will not auto-launch at the
client
> end.
>
> Thanks.
> -=Nick=-
> nick at bde3d dot com thanks.

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