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fwordboy

3:33 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

a friend of mine says he can't see my website, whenever he looks at it he gets asked to download a file. then it does nothing.
i think hes using ie5.5 & windows but i have tested my site on ie5.5 and ie6 and it works perfectly for me on a few different computers.

he sent the file that the site asks him to d/l as an email attachment to me, it was a 0.8k 'application/octet-stream' file with no file extension.

does anyone know whats going on?
is the problem on his side?
and what is an 'application/octet-stream' file?

jetboy_70

3:46 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

It sounds like the MIME types on your server may be setup incorrectly. MIME types are set on the server for individual extensions, and instruct the browser how to handle specific file types. What extension is the file in question? .html, .asp, .php etc.

fwordboy

3:52 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

it was a 0.8k 'application/octet-stream' file with no file extension.

thing is i'm sure i don't have any .8k files on the server.

jetboy_70

3:55 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Okay, what file was he trying to look at? Was this the root of your site? If so, do you have an index.html file in the root or is there something else?

fwordboy

4:01 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

index.htm in the root folder

jetboy_70

4:12 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Okay, scratch the non-standard extension idea. ;)

If you look at you site with a header viewer (for example: [delorie.com...] what is the content type being displayed. If it's 'text/html' then everything is working correctly at your end, and it's a problem with your friend's setup.

fwordboy

8:50 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

RESULTS

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:47:41 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_jk/1.2.0 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
Last-Modified: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:49:34 GMT
ETag: "3a83a1-4b1-3fde104e"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1201
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

the site is a dot com hosted on the subdomain of another dot com. e.g. site.com @ site.anothersite.com
on my friend pc it works fine when he goes to site.anothersite.com but not site.com?
concidentally the file he has to download is gobbledegook and called the same as the domain name minus the dot com.
strange?

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