ElvisFrog
02-08-2008, 01:16 PM
I have this issue where a PowerPoint 2007 file that has the extension of .ppsx will open in IE7 as a Zip file but in Firefox it works fine as a file download.
I found this information:
Problem
Links to PowerPoint 2007 files (PPTX, PPSX, etc) on your web site don't work.
When you click the link, you get 404/File Not Found errors or the browser displays gibberish or offers to download the file with an incorrect ZIP file extension.
Solution
The real solution is to contact your webmaster and have the new Office 2007 file types added to the web server's MIME table. You may not understand what that means or how to do it, but your webmaster will.
IIS 6.0 does not serve unknown MIME types
Workaround
While you're waiting for the new MIME types to be added, you can include your PowerPoint 2007 files in a ZIP archive. Upload and link to that instead (and explain to users that they'll have to extract your files from the ZIP after downloading it).
Obviously FutureQuest doesn't use IIS but any not sure if something does need to be done on the server side or not? Again it works fine in Firefox just not IE.
Thanks!
I found this information:
Problem
Links to PowerPoint 2007 files (PPTX, PPSX, etc) on your web site don't work.
When you click the link, you get 404/File Not Found errors or the browser displays gibberish or offers to download the file with an incorrect ZIP file extension.
Solution
The real solution is to contact your webmaster and have the new Office 2007 file types added to the web server's MIME table. You may not understand what that means or how to do it, but your webmaster will.
IIS 6.0 does not serve unknown MIME types
Workaround
While you're waiting for the new MIME types to be added, you can include your PowerPoint 2007 files in a ZIP archive. Upload and link to that instead (and explain to users that they'll have to extract your files from the ZIP after downloading it).
Obviously FutureQuest doesn't use IIS but any not sure if something does need to be done on the server side or not? Again it works fine in Firefox just not IE.
Thanks!