Forcing IE to ignore some MIME types

[Vaughan]

Hi All

I hope that you can help. I have implemented a Custom Download Manager for
IE, but I have now noticed that some of the file downoads are not passed to
my download manager, I have assotained that this is because of IE trapping
the MIME type for the download, and then if it understands this type, it
seems to handle it itself. This may be fine with some people, but is not
fine with me, as the reason for implementing the download manager in the
first place, was to catch all downloads, and not just those the IE does not
want to handle.

The one that this one stands out for is for zip files. IE does not call the
custom download manager. What I did do was remove the Mime information from
the .zip entry in the registry and IE would then pass this information on to
the Download Manager. As you can imagine this is not the ideal way of
handling this. Can someone point me in the direction of some documentation
whereby I can install some temporarty override on the built in mime types,
and custom mime types of my choice. I am sure that there must be a way to
handle this.

Thanks
Vaughan

 

[Feng Mao]

Hi Vaughan,

Thank you for posting!

The MIME type information is stored in the registry key, as you know. We
need modify the registry key. Please do remember to backup your registry
keys or export them to an REG file before the next steps.

1. Click Start, point to Run and type REGEDIT and then press Enter
2. In left panel, locate the below
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip
3. Right click the key and choose Export to export it to and REG file as
backup
4. In the right panel, you will see Content Type, which determines its MIME
type. You may change or deleter it. Then, try to download it from Internet
Explorer again.

I hope it helps.

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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| Subject: Forcing IE to ignore some MIME types
| Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:55:28 +0200
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| Hi All
|
| I hope that you can help. I have implemented a Custom Download Manager for
| IE, but I have now noticed that some of the file downoads are not passed
to
| my download manager, I have assotained that this is because of IE trapping
| the MIME type for the download, and then if it understands this type, it
| seems to handle it itself. This may be fine with some people, but is not
| fine with me, as the reason for implementing the download manager in the
| first place, was to catch all downloads, and not just those the IE does
not
| want to handle.
|
| The one that this one stands out for is for zip files. IE does not call
the
| custom download manager. What I did do was remove the Mime information
from
| the .zip entry in the registry and IE would then pass this information on
to
| the Download Manager. As you can imagine this is not the ideal way of
| handling this. Can someone point me in the direction of some documentation
| whereby I can install some temporarty override on the built in mime types,
| and custom mime types of my choice. I am sure that there must be a way to
| handle this.
|
| Thanks
| Vaughan
|
|
|
|