RE: FLASH: Re: Mime and @home ISP

[Larry Eisenstein]

Hi John,


Thank you for walking me through this whole process. I've spent the day learning a bit about this whole MIME thing and talking to the technical staff of @home here in Toronto. They are so incredibly clueless. But I convinced them to send a work order to California. I am expecting results on your suggested time-frame, of up to 2 weeks. In the meantime I have my personal site ready to roll and nowhere to go.


Is it OK to put it up the URL with the appropriate warnings to direct browsers to use Microsoft IE or should I wait for the server to get up to speed. I built the whole thing into one huge movie so hopefully the Mac's will view it all OK.


Thanks again somewhat despairingly,

Larry


-----Original Message-----

From:	John Croteau 


Hi Larry,


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.

application/ms-tnef