I've been using this script to insert all different files types with great success! The only files that seem to give me grief are Lotus files (*.wk4). The files upload okay, but when I click on a link to view them it tries to open file.asp? When looking at the uploaded file in the database it displays Content Type as
application/octet-stream rather than a Lotus type. Is this an issue with the loader.asp functions or something on the server side?

Any help in this matter would be most appreciated!
Thanks, Ron.

Well the server-side doesn't know what content-type the file has, it takes and believes whatever the *client-side* tells it at the time when the client browser sends the file.

In the ASP.NET uploading tutorials I used a cool technique where the ASP.NET code on the server-side uses the Windows registry to fetch the correct content-type for a file with a known extension e.g. .doc. But obviously that technique hasn't been used in the ASP version of the article.

Another option for your file.asp is to check the file extension when it fetches it from the database and set it to whatever is the *correct* (I don't know what is the correct content-type for .wk4) content-type and then send it to the client browser. Obviously it'll mean that you'll have to make some editions to the code *yourself*. :)

After much research, I have found that the problem stems from the set MIME type for Lotus 123 or lack there of. Lotus for some reason does not set this up by default at installation time. If the client doesn't manually set the MIME type for Lotus 123 to 'application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3' it will not work. This is also noted as a problem on the Lotus support site, with status of: "currently no work around"

So even when I set file.asp to change the contentType to 'application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3' prior to the binarywrite command it still won't work if the client hasn't setup the MIME type.

Any other ideas? =)

I have 4 webservers where the uploading of the file works absolutely fine. But on the 5th server which is accessed using https://applicationame, when I upload the excel/word files, the content type gets converted to application/octet-stream instead of "application/vnd.ms-excel". But on rest of the servers that are accessed using http://applicationanme, the files get uploaded with right contenttype.

So while downloading the above files, tha application tries to download it as filename.xls.aspx

I am similar problem as Ron does. Any help would be appreciatde.

Thanks,
Chanda.

I had similar prob. This is what I did to fix it whenever it came up with application/octet-stream data type. Hope it works for you..: Let me know..

rsImage("MIMEType").Value = trim(Mid(fileName, instr(1, fileName, "."), len(filename))) 'contentType

instead of

rsImage("MIMEType").Value = contentType

Whatever file you select will always have default extension and this will grab that extension. But you have to make sure your file does not have more than 1 dot("."). In that case you can do reverse string and seek first "." it finds.