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Help!

I need to serve an Active X document from my firewall, and things
just aint working smoothly. Served from a Win95 box with PWS, or an NT
 box with IIS, things run great. HOWEVER, when I put the ocx, the cab
 and the vbd files on my Linux server running Apache 1.1.1, shit
 happens. All I get in IE is a line of cryptic ascii text - looking like
 I transferred files in bin instead of ascii - not the case. If I then
 ftp the files back to a Microsoft box, and serve them from there, it
 works.

SO if anyone has ANY ideas at all about what could be pooched, please
email me.

Dave Bouwman

Did you create appropriate MIME types in Apache? Use the AddType
directive. If you haven't done this, then Apache will likely identify
your files as the default type, text/html.
--
David Hayes

My sysadmin always agrees with me.

Quote:> If you haven't done this, then Apache will likely identify
> your files as the default type, text/html.

A binary file that has been inadvertently treated as "text" might be
ruined, whereas a "text" file that has been inadvertently treated as
binary can be fed through some kind of formatting utility (cf.  gnu
recode) to make it conform to the platform's newline and encoding
conventions.  So there is a justifiable argument for treating all
unknown file types as binary, even if it isn't what most people seem to
expect.

(No, I don't do it on the servers that I run, but I can see some
arguments in its favour).

Hope it helps Rainer