File Extention and IE

[Richard]

Hi Gurus,
I have a file with extention abc.
I want to create a html page. When user click a link it should open that
file, but IE does not recognise that file(.abc).
What I have to do so that when user click's it it should download it as EXE
or other files.

Please help.
Richard.

[Crouchie1998]

Re: File Extention and IE

You need to register your file extension. You can either do it via the link
below or using the Setup program to do the work for you

Try this:

http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=5

I hope this helps

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

[Richard]

Re: File Extention and IE

I have already done that(FileAssoci ation). When I double click the file it
opens fine. But when I put it in html, IE doesn't recognise it. It tries to
open it as html page, instead of downloading it.

Richard.

"Crouchie19 98" <crouchie1998@s pamcop.net> wrote in message
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> You need to register your file extension. You can either do it via the
> link
> below or using the Setup program to do the work for you
>
> Try this:
>
> http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=5
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Crouchie1998
> BA (HONS) MCP MCSE
>
>[/color]

[BW]

Re: File Extention and IE

Is this on a web server? Or a file system?

If webserver...

Doing the fileassociation is not going to help. You need to tell IIS how to
server the file/page.

You do this by adding a mapping properties dialog on IIS or you can
implement either IHttpHandler or IHttpModule in your web application.

HTH
B

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> I have already done that(FileAssoci ation). When I double click the file it
> opens fine. But when I put it in html, IE doesn't recognise it. It tries[/color]
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> open it as html page, instead of downloading it.
>
> Richard.
>
> "Crouchie19 98" <crouchie1998@s pamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:OM1N7GwWFH A.3044@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > You need to register your file extension. You can either do it via the
> > link
> > below or using the Setup program to do the work for you
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=5
> >
> > I hope this helps
> >
> > Crouchie1998
> > BA (HONS) MCP MCSE
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]

[dave bray]

Re: File Extention and IE

most reliable way is something like this;

Set oStream = Server.CreateOb ject("ADODB.Str eam")
oStream.Open
oStream.Type = 1 ' Binary
oStream.LoadFro mFile strPath ' strPath is path to file
binaryData = oStream.Read ' file is not in var
Set oStream = Nothing

Response.AddHea der "content-disposition", _
"attachment ; filename=""" & strFileName & """"
Response.Binary Write binaryData



Richard wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi Gurus,
> I have a file with extention abc.
> I want to create a html page. When user click a link it should open that
> file, but IE does not recognise that file(.abc).
> What I have to do so that when user click's it it should download it as EXE
> or other files.
>
> Please help.
> Richard.
>
>[/color]