Hyperlink to Exe file

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March 25th, 2009, 08:08 PM
codenamevirus

Hyperlink to Exe file

Hi

I have created a HTML page, which has a link to an exe file.
The code is very small and normal as below:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Welcome ABC</title>
</head>
<body>
WELCOME ABC
<a href="setup.exe" target="_self">Please click to download</a>
</body>
</html>

As you can see that there's a hyperlink to a setup.exe file located in the same folder as the html file. But, when i click on this link, i get an error "Page cannot be found" with the following details:

"HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)"

I am using IIS 6.0 on windows server 2003, after googling I found out that there's some problem because of the MIME types and added the "EXE" Mime type with "application\octet-stream" to the folder containing the exe file (the root folder in my case), as mentioned here "http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326965"

But, even after doing this, I am still not able to download the exe file using the hyperlink.
Can you please tell me, what I am doing wrong, or if I have missed anything? or what could be done to allow downloading the exe file from the link!

Thanks
March 25th, 2009, 09:07 PM
kvadrat

hi.
check rights for that file. what kind of users that can get access to that file.
March 26th, 2009, 06:05 AM
codenamevirus

Quote:

Originally Posted by kvadrat

hi.
check rights for that file. what kind of users that can get access to that file.

Hi
I checked the permissions and security and allowed everyone to read this file.
But still the problem exists.
what to do?

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New update:
I gave full rights to everyone also now, but still not working.
April 4th, 2009, 12:15 PM
humanvirus

surely its because of the target="_self", I've had this kinda thing working before by just usign the a href, without the target. it then gives you the option to run or download the file.
April 6th, 2009, 04:42 PM
dinowuff

This may be completely wrong since I haven't written HTML in years, but try changing target="_self" to target="_parent"
April 21st, 2009, 06:04 PM
zszafran

Your HTML looks fine, I think the IIS configuration might be to blame here.

Checkout: http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/arc...-6-Part-2.aspx