Outlook & ASP

[Databaseguy]

I've got a Outlook folder pointing to my home page, which is HTML.

When I follow the Hyperlinks to my ASP pages, it thinks I want to download the files.

Any ideas.

 

[GIGN]

It is because ASP pages must be server processed, so when you open it, and it hasn't come from a server - your program gets confused - and thinks it is a format it can't render, like .zip or something.
Get yourself a [microsoft] server installed and run it from there, rather than from your hard drive.
;-)

 

[Databaseguy]

I've got Peer Web Services for NT 4.0 loaded and running. It correctly intrepets the ASP pages from a browser, just not from Outlook.

Are you saying the Server has to be somewhere else besides my local hard drive ?

 

[ntbutic]

Requesting for ASP pages without the presence of a Web server is meaningless. Just a Web Server like IIS or PSW can recognize an ASP page. The page must be added to a site or virtual directory. So you cannot call ASP pages explicitly. Calling of an ASP page that is not a part of a Web Server makes the page to download and Internet explorer behaves the page as a standalone file to download. If you want to understand what is really going on, you must become familiar with the preliminary structure of Web servers and how they process ASP pages. I guess that the ASP pages you are calling do not belong to a Web server or you are calling them offline i.e. the pages are on your own computer and there is no Web server on your computer. It is a general rule and does not relate to Outlook or any other software. A.Gh(ntbutic)
ntbutic@hotmail.com

 

[Databaseguy]

Thx all. ntbutic, if you read my post a little more carefully, you would have seen that I had installed and that I am running a web server. (PWS)


I found the problem.

I had referenced \\MyIISServer in the default folder. Outlook interpreted this as c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\etc

etc

I changed it to http:\\MyIISServer and it worked fine.

Funny thing \\MyIISServer works from the browser. Oh well.

Thx again