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Link to WMV file points to htm

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calculus

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Apr 10, 2003
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I have a website with a video stored as a .wmv file. I've done this numerous times in the past, but for some reason when the user clicks the link the file shows binary code on a webpage instead of opening the file in their default player. If the user does file>save as, the file tries to save as a htm file instead of the real extension of wmv.

The file is:

After some testing on my own personal site, it appears this may be specific to this server. Any ideas?

calculus
 
After frowning when I saw what the website is about (no offense meant though ;)) I tried your link and, indeed, it changes to htm. I guess your server doesn't support binaries and therefor makes a text document of it. A possible solution is to right-click and save as .wmv anyway - but I'm aware this is not a very user-friendly solution.

Peace,

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