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 the

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

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 copy

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

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

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 as

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 text.

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