Windows Server 2003 - Mimetypes

[TheBlueRaja]

Hi All,
A customer of our company has a Windows Server 2003 edition running IIS - now some of the equipment we use checks the web server for updates to its firmware upon reboot. However since upgrading from Windows 2000 to 2003 this has stopped working - it does however work again if we configure an Apache server on a different IP address and point it to that.

It did work on Windows 2000 before the upgrade. Somebody suggested that this is to do with Mimetypes, but when i goto configure them i specify the file extension but then it propmts me for the type of file - how do i answer this - its a firmware file - its not an executable or an xml file etc - so what can i put there?

Any help would be appreicated.

[punky]

What extension does this firmware have?

It must be a binary file though, so i'd guess it would be something like:

application/binary

You have to enter it in exactly like that. the two words separated by forward slash, no spaces.

HTH

[TheBlueRaja]

Thanks punky will give it a try - it is a binary file the extension is .DAT, but as it is proprietary it shouldn't make a difference.

[Aragorn]

I can guess why the problem started - IIS 6 on W2K3 is locked down by default rather than the leaky IIS 5 version.

You might find the answer in the 'Web Services Extension' part of the IIS Manager on 2K3, but can't think of the obvious answer atm.