Re: FLASH: Re: Mime and @home ISP

[John Croteau]

Hi Larry,


> Thanks for the feedback. I finally got a tech supervisor on the phone and he

> says he views my site without problems.

> He says if he sends up a request to his bosses to change the mime type,

> they will look at my site internally and see everything working fine and

> it will be a no-go. 

First, anyone who is qualified to run a webser should know that MIME is

required for HTTP. 

Two, there is no way to know what browsers will work and which ones will

not. Two identical browsers going to the same page may get two different

symptoms. Version 3 browsers are more prone to MIME problems than

version 4 but no browsers except MCIE Win 95/98/NT are immune. Just

because most people can see the picture does not mean that the MIME is

set correctly.


Please read my tech notes on this for more details.

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Server/index.htm


Note, each cable system that uses @Home will have at least one head-end

with its own web server system.


Don't anger uninformed support people and so called webmasters, but also

don't let them pull the wool over your eyes either. Setting MIME is a 5

minute job an a normal webmaster function though you may have to wait

for the servers to be rebooted before the settings will take effect.

Adding a couple more MIME settings to the MIME table does not impact

server performance enough to be measureable if done server wide.


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