Re: linking to exe files for download

by "Bryan Bateman" <batemanb(at)home.com>

Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2000 14:07:26 -0000
To:	"Mike Dahlor" <mdahlor(at)bebsoft.com>, <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	bebsoft
	todo: View Thread, Original

It could be a mime type problem.  Either on the server or at the client.

Questions:

What browser software?
What server software?
What are the mime types?
Is this an Intranet or Internet site?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Dahlor" <mdahlor(at)bebsoft.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: linking to exe files for download


> This may be a stupid question, but I am having trouble linking to exe
files.
> I really don't want to create .zips just to get the Save to dialogue, but
if
> I link to the file itself I get a CGI timeout error.  My code is currently
> a href=http://www.domainname.com/subdirectory/filename.exe and that isn't
> working.  Any clues?
>
> Mike
>

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