Posted by Rik on 08/06/06 20:31

schoenfeld1@gmail.com wrote:
> I used to distribute software on my website by offering as a download
> an installer.msi.
>
> I now need to distribute it as installer.exe.
>
> There are many requests from other sites coming directly for
> installer.msi.
>
> I tried doing a server-side redirect from 'installer.msi' to
> 'installer.exe' but when the client goes to run the file, windows
> complains of file corruption (since the msi file is really an exe
> file).
>
>
> Question is: what is the recommended strategy to deal with this
> problem? There are hundreds of shareware sites redirecting users to
> that file, and i can't seem to get the client browser to start
> downloading 'installer.exe'.

Hmmz, when a server-siode redirect straight to the *.exe isn't really
working, perhaps redirecting to some PHP-page which sends the appropriate
headers (filename, mime-type, length etc), before sending the *.exe?

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

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