I tired running a camera link with cgi extension on IE 7 and it prompts me to save the file etc and cannot see any video cam. However using firefox does not have such problems. How do i resolve this problem in IE 7?
Thanks
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Alucard
You need to look into MIME types for your CGI file. Browsers interperet incorrectly configured MIME types differently.
If you're using the CGI module, you can use the line print $cgi->header('text/html'); instead, where $cgi is your reference to the CGI instance.
Sourced from: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types
Cheers,
Andy
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunatley, I am not configuring any CGI module nor create any. The cgi derive from a public camera that I found on the internet : http://129.78.249.81/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi
If you click on the link in firefox browser , you will be able to see the mjpeg but in IE 7 it will prompt you to save a file which things are not desired. So is there any means for me to configure IE 7 the way firefox works?
thanks.
Regards
Alucard
Well, I have one more suggestion. Assuming your server is running apache's web server, create a new text file called ".htaccess" with the following statement in it:
Then upload it to the same directory as your cgi file (http://129.78.249.81/axis-cgi/mjpg/)
If that doesn't work, then I'm stumped.
Andy
thanks.
Regards
Alucard
Yes, I tried the link in IE7 and it provided a download prompt. In this case, the only thing you can do is contact the administrator of the website and inform them of the problem. AFAIK It's not possible to choose the action on a file you navigate to through IE.
Sorry about that!
Andy
