Does anyone know (or where) to set application handlers for particular MIME types in IE under Windows?
My problem is that I am not able to stream certain types of data files through IE and have it automatically launch the appropriate application. Instead, I get a bunch of garbled text.
The same file, when launched locally from explorer, will open fine.
Example: MP3 Audio files
IE will display a large file of garbled text when a link to an MP3 file is clicked.
Windows Explorer, however, opens Winamp and plays the file just fine (if on a local disk).
According to the registry, the .mp3 file association looks correct. It lists a "Content Type" of "audio/mpeg", which SHOULD be the correct MIME type, and lists (Default) as "Winamp.File".
Am I mistaken, or shouldn't both IE and Windows Explorer use the same method of invocation when encountering a file with the .mp3 extension? If so, then why would the IE method fail?
Thanks for any input,
Kyle
My problem is that I am not able to stream certain types of data files through IE and have it automatically launch the appropriate application. Instead, I get a bunch of garbled text.
The same file, when launched locally from explorer, will open fine.
Example: MP3 Audio files
IE will display a large file of garbled text when a link to an MP3 file is clicked.
Windows Explorer, however, opens Winamp and plays the file just fine (if on a local disk).
According to the registry, the .mp3 file association looks correct. It lists a "Content Type" of "audio/mpeg", which SHOULD be the correct MIME type, and lists (Default) as "Winamp.File".
Am I mistaken, or shouldn't both IE and Windows Explorer use the same method of invocation when encountering a file with the .mp3 extension? If so, then why would the IE method fail?
Thanks for any input,
Kyle
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