Re: MIME Types

Network Operations ( noc@apc.net )
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 15:00:18 -0800

We noticed the same problem so we put that customer on our O'Reilly Website
server - works good. Tried many different MIME types on the IIS server
with no luck. We'll try the MIME types below and post the results.

At 02:53 PM 12/2/97 -0300, you wrote:
>Kent Runyan,
>
>On 2 Dec 97 at 9:38, you wrote:
>
>> We have a customer that wants to play .mid & .midi files off our
>> server. The files play fine when using IE 3.02 but Netscape tries to
>> download them as an executable. Our server uses IIS 3.0 with all
>> applicable service packs and hot fixes installed. Are we missing a
>> MIME type that Netscape needs or is there something else we are
>> missing??
>
>Yes, you should use the REGISTRY editor in your IIS web server and go
>to:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> + SYSTEM
> + CurrentControlSet
> + Services
> + InetInfo
> + Parameters
> + MimeMap
>
>Then, you should add two new string value (REG_SZ) with empty values.
>The string names should be:
>
>audio/x-midi,mid,,2
>audio/x-midi,midi,,2
>
>After that, you should stop ALL IIS services and start them again, or
>you can just restart your NT server.
>
>That's all.
>
>[]s,
>
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