Re: FLASH: Beta Test

[John Croteau]

Hi Mary,


The MIME is set to application/octet-stream for Flash on your site.

It should be application/x-shockwave-flash as descibed in:

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


There is a testing method in MM Note 12696.

And Test files to make checking on MIME easy.

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


Just because it works on one Browser doesn't mean the MIME is OK. You

must test it to be sure (it is very easy). There is no way to predict

the symptoms that a browser will have when visiting a site where the

MIME is not set. A browser may work, display no picture, crash the

browser or exibit one of the other symptoms. Two visitors with the exact

same browser version may get different symptoms when going to the same

site if the MIME is not set correctly. Only MSIE 3/4 Win 95/98/NT

browsers don't rely on the MIME setting on the server.


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