Downloading and launching an exe

[skiflyer]

I was always under the impression that when you navigated to a page that ended in .exe it would ask if you wanted to download the file or run it from current location... yet when I try that with a certain page I have, it's actually launching the process on the server.

What the heck is going on and where would I look into these settings?

IIS 4.0 on an NT Server machine.

Thanks,
-Rob

 

[Wullie]

skiflyer

Not all .exe files result in a download, it depends if the file was written for the web or not.

As for it launching when it's not supposed to, this is possibly a setting in your browser.

When you encounter a page with an exe file, there is normally a checkbox that allows you to automatically launch it without a prompt in the future.

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.mailtosanta.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[skiflyer]

Actually, in this case it turned out to be a server setting in IIS. The "world" had access to execute files in the directory I was testing in, so the server executed them. Turning that setting off, it instead served it up for download.

A right click will always, of course, circumvent such an issue.

I'm assuming there're also some HTML tags to circumvent the issue.

Either way, thanks for the ideas, I'll be certain to keep them in mind as I deploy this.

-Rob