RE: FLASH: Setting MIMI Type

[Paul Watson]

I'm no expert and I recommend you read the help at Macromedia - they

have some articles on settings MIME types and the embed/object tags.


All I do know is that the web server must have the MIME type set as this

regulates how the file is sent, either binary or text. I may be off the

mark but that's the general gist of it. Now days most web server admin

staff should have setup Flash mime types on the server as Flash is so

prevalent.


Sorry for the vague thoughts :)


Paul Watson


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

From: 	"H�glund, Johan" [

johogwmdata [dot] com (mailto:johogwmdata [dot] com)

] 

Sent:	Tuesday, December 07, 1999 4:56 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject:	RE: FLASH: Setting MIMI Type


Paul, I had problems with the mime-type and Netscape once (it wouldn't

play

although I hade the plug-in) and I solved it by putting the mime-type

within

the Embed-tag. Nothing was done to the server. Why did it work? Do you

need

to set the mime-type in both places?


/johan


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

From: Paul Watson [

Paulretailradio [dot] co [dot] za (mailto:Paulretailradio [dot] co [dot] za)

]

Sent: den 7 december 1999 14:59

To:

'flasherchinwag [dot] com

'

Subject: RE: FLASH: Setting MIMI Type



Your web server HAS to have the Flash MIME type set. Its got nothing to

do with the browser. Unfortunately I cannot tell you how to set the MIME

type. Normally all you do is email your web server administrator and

they do it.


Paul Watson


Radio Retail

Cape Town 

South Africa


Love is a belief, I am a believer and a sinner...


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

From: 	"H�glund, Johan" [

johogwmdata [dot] com (mailto:johogwmdata [dot] com)

] 

Sent:	Tuesday, December 07, 1999 3:48 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject:	RE: FLASH: Setting MIMI Type


I think that Flash automatically takes care of the Mime-type for

netscape,

by setting it in the HTML-page. And for IExplorer it's not necessary at

all.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.


/Johan


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

From: John Brzys [

jbrzysperceptron [dot] com (mailto:jbrzysperceptron [dot] com)

]

Sent: den 7 december 1999 14:52

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: Setting MIMI Type




> Hi everybody.  Seems like I learn so much on this list.  Is someone

willing

> to teach me yet something else?

>

> What would setting the MIME type on the server do and how do you go

about

> doing it?

here is some valuable info about MIME that i saved from an earlier

posting

from John C.

1) That MIME is important to be set to prevent such problems as crashing

browsers.

2) That it is a setting made by the administrator of your server.

3) That just seeing a picture in Netscape is no indication of whether

the MIME is set properly for Flash orNOT.

4) That setting the MIME actually takes less than 5 minutes and needs to

be set only once for Flash.

5) That there are 2 easy ways to test for MIME.

6) That detailed information about MIME is available for users and

Webmasters at the Flash Tech Resource including how to set it on most

servers.

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






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