ASX Opens up in a TextEditor instead of opening up WMP

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Jay - 30 Jan 2004 04:31 GMT

We return a ASX when a user request to video file. 99.99% of the users
computer this will open a WMP and all works fine. But time to time we will
get a bug report where the ASX file opens up Notepad on users computer and
it displays the ASX file in that notepad. Why is it ?

Jay

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Mike - 30 Jan 2004 05:45 GMT

If your server doesn't have the MIME type added for ASX this can happen.
(Depending on your browser)

Some web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, try to allow for misconfigured
web servers and applications by guessing what the correct MIME type should
be. Netscape Gecko-based browsers such as Netscape 6.x, Netscape 7.x,
CompuServe 7, AOL for Mac OS X as well as Mozilla, respect the MIME types as
reported by web servers. By default, many web servers are configured to
report a MIME type of text/plain for unknown content types.

So, if your server is reporting your ASX file as plain text, the above
browsers will try and open it as a text file.

Hope this helps,

~Mike

> We return a ASX when a user request to video file. 99.99% of the users
> computer this will open a WMP and all works fine. But time to time we will
> get a bug report where the ASX file opens up Notepad on users computer and
> it displays the ASX file in that notepad. Why is it ?
>
> Jay

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