Installing Windows Nt/Windows 2000 Cgi Programs; Overview Of Windows Nt/Windows 2000 Cgi Programs - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Installing Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI Programs

One solution to this problem is to compress the executable files that you want users
to be able to download, so that the extension is not
added benefit of making the download time shorter.
Another possible solution is to remove
magnus-internal/cgi
type (the MIME type for normal downloadable files). You can do this through the
Server Manager, by choosing the Server Preferences tab and clicking the MIME
Types link. However, the disadvantage to this method is that after making this
change you cannot use
Another solution is to edit your server's
directory, where any file in the directory is downloaded automatically. The rest of
the server won't be affected.
Installing Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI
Programs
This section discusses how to install Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI Programs.
The following topics are included in this section:
•

Overview of Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI Programs

• Specifying a Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI Directory
• Specifying Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI as a File Type
Overview of Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI
Programs
Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI programs are handled much as other CGI
programs. You specify a directory that contains only Windows NT/Windows 2000
CGI programs, or you specify that all Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI programs
have the same file extension. Note that like other CGI programs, you can use both
methods at the same time if you want to. For example, you can create a directory
for all your Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI programs, and specify a Windows
NT/Windows 2000 CGI file extension.
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.exe
type and add it instead to the
files as CGI programs.
.exe
obj.conf
. This solution has the
.exe
as a file extension from the
application/octet-stream
file to set up a download