Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: >> On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: >>> Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the >>> movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just >

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Joe
Dave Sherohman wrote: Some years ago, I was working on a web-based voicemail/telephony interface and discovered that the then-current version of MSIE would look at the last portion of retrieved URLs and, if they looked like a recognized file extension, it would completely ignore Content-Type and

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:21:01PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > > Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the > > movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just > > copy > > the WMV file to

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:53:13 -0500, I wrote: > Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the > movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy > the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or > display it as te

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the > movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy > the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or > display it a

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 19:53:13 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the > movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy > the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or > d

confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm perplexed by the following. My wife made a movie (WMV suffix) with Windows MovieMaker. She posted it on a machine running Novell's Novonix web server. If I typed the file's URL into a browser window, it just displayed a full page of non-ASCII junk. This was true from both XP Explorer and Et