Re: Website unable to download *.exe's

Read -
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/10/17/HOWTO_Allow_file_downloads_including_exe_on_IIS_6_Part_2.aspx


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"Brian" <Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a webiste where the web master would like to have others download
exe
off the site. Righth now when I try to click on the link it will not
download
the file. If I chage it to a zip file it works just fine...


Any thought or ideas

Thanks,

Brian


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