AVI blocked? WinSrv2003

[Jay @ Work]

It's probably becuase of a long a hard day, but I'm trying to enable avi's to be served on my dedicated window 2003 server for a client's domain only.

I've added a mime type in the properties of the domain under HTTP headers as "video/x-msvideo", but the files are not downloading in the browser, i.e., just a blank pages as if the server isn't serving that file type.

I'm missing something obvious here, but my brains stuck in a giggle loop...can anyone put me out of my missery?

[maxknight26]

Try adding video/x-msvideo avi for AVI files. Make sure you restart IIS after this to ensure the new value is being served. Another way to beat all this is by doing the following:

• Open IIS Manager and open the properties of the IIS node.
• Click MIME Types, then click New.
• Type a single asterisk into the Extension box.
• Type application/octet-stream into the MIME Type box.
• Click OK.

This basically sets IIS to serve any file type irrespective of it's MIME settings. This is not enabled by default in IIS due to security reasons so use it at your own choice.

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