serving .exe files in IIS 6.0

From: bigdog (msurel@comshare.com)
Date: 01/13/03 

From: msurel@comshare.com (bigdog)
Date: 13 Jan 2003 12:54:16 -0800

I am having problems setting up a page to allow the download or run of
an EXE to do an installation routine with IIS 6.0 on .NET server RC2.
If I zip the file and then put that on the same page, the ZIP file is
fine but the EXE gives me the following error

Internet Explorer cannot download esinst.exe from myserver

Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The
requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try
again later.

I tried adding .exe as a MIME type for the directory the file resides
in, and that doesn't change the behavior. The log file gives me a 404
error that looks like the following

2003-01-13 20:26:46 W3SVC1 MYSERVER 130.211.4.184 GET
/myserver/esinst.exe - 80 user1 130.211.4.184 HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
- - myserver 404 2 1260 1830 264

In looking at other related messages in this group and others, I
haven't found anything that should show this error. In fact, one of
the messages says that a user was having problems with MSI files, they
changed the extension to EXE, and everything was then downloadable.

I had a similar problem with a file that had a .DAT extension and
setting the MIME type in the directory cleared up that problem. If
anybody can give me any clue as to what the problem is, I would
appreciate it.

Thanks.

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