Re: IIS Launches EXE when Hyperlink is Clicked

From: Stephen L Nicoud (nicouds@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/30/02 

Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:14:30 -0700
From: Stephen L Nicoud <nicouds@hotmail.com>

Jeremy Huffman wrote:
>
> We noticed today that on our development web server, if we click a
> hyperlink or otherwise request an EXE file through a URL, then IIS
> launches that process locally on the server. This was very confusing
> at first, since it just appears that the file is taking forever to
> download. Then I looked on the server process list, and the EXE in
> question had been launched. I'm able to reproduce the problem with any
> EXE I choose.
>
> If the Anonymous user account does not have read & execute NTFS
> permissions for the file (it only has read), then the user is prompted
> for a login.
>
> Why is this happening, and how do I stop it?

If you want anonymous users to be able to download the file you need to
give the anonymous user NTFS read access, at least, and make sure that
the IIS VIRTUAL directory that the exe resides in does NOT have EXECUTE
privileges (N.B., I'm not talking about the NTFS execute permission). 

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