Adding MIME type not enough?

[exo99]

Hey, got a quick question, hopefully someone can help me with.

I recently setup a new MIME type in the MIME type configuration panel on Abyss Web Serv 2x. I added...

application/x-bittorrent and then --> torrent for the extension.

Porblem is then when i click on a .torrent link on a web page i am serving, it still comes up as Unknown in IE without the Open or Save dialog box. I have also tried restarting and completly shutting down and powering on the server but still no luck.

Anyone have another idea i could try to get .torrent links working on my site?

[TRUSTAbyss]

Maybe it's your browser? Have you tried flushing your browser's cache?

[exo99]

ya tried that also... history, temp files, cookies etc. torrent links on other sites work fine btw.

[TRUSTAbyss]

Can you link us to one of the torrent links, so that we may test it also?

[exo99]

Ok i found the problem and although i dont understand it, i did manage to make it work.

In my particular situation i have a download.php which is part of a tracker website/script and in that file i have the code...

header("Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$mysiteurl.''.$f.'"');
print($alltorrent);

but if i remove the .$mysiteurl. then it works fine.

header("Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$f.'"');
print($alltorrent);

[pkSML]

The filename attribute in the Content-Disposition header is not to be a URL. It is only supposed to be a standard file system name.

Example shown here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260519
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[exo99]

Thank you very much, i have passed your posted link and revelent info onto the dev of the tracker website script to let them know.

[aprelium]

exo99,

Your MIME type header is generated by a script so the MIME table is not used here (it is only used when the file is static i.e. not generated by a script).
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