IIS 404 Errors for Files That Exist! January 13 2005
This is a security feature that I stumbled upon when trying to serve up .IVR files from an IIS on a Windows 2003 server box. IIS will not serve up files of unknown MIME types.
Basically the IVR is a panoramic image file which can be loaded into an applet and displayed through the web. What was happening was that the applet was loading and then stopped but not throwing any exceptions. The applet needed the .IVR file from the webserver which IIS was reluctant to serve up.
Solution: Add an application/octet stream MIME type for the IVR file to the IIS config (or any other file type) and the IIS will be happy to serve it up on a platter!
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- Author : site admin
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