Re: Href to .exe gives a 404 file not found error

From: Ravi (ravipillai@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/02 

From: "Ravi" <ravipillai@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:06:41 -0700

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the note. It was the problem indeed and I
resolved it right away.

Thanks
Ravi

>-----Original Message-----
>>In IIS on Windows 2000 Server, I get file not found
error
>>message when a link points to an exe. Previously, it
used
>>to download the executable to the client.
>>
>>The option 'Allow Authors to upload executables" is
>>checked on at the root level.
>>
>>Anonymous access is also granted to the executable file.
>>
>>The link is in a html file residing on the same folder
as
>>the executable and it just has the executable's file
name
>>in href (abosulte path is not useed and protocol is not
>>explicitly passed.) Access to the site is granted
through
>>port 8010 only.
>>
>>Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.
>
>Did you install URLScan or the IIS lockdown tool and
forget to allow
>the EXE extension in the INI file?
>
>Jeff
>.
>

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