Files with scandinavian marks in the name

Hi!

We have a problem downloading files that have scandinavian marks in the
filename from IIS server. I already posted this question to internet transfer
control newsgroup (because we are using itc for downloading) but they
suspected that the problem is in the IIS server.

I can't download files with IE either. IE lists files correctly showing but
when I click for example säsö.txt it says page not found.

How should I code scandinavian marks in url (such as ä and ö) or what
settings do I need to change in the server in order to download these files?

BR
Johanna Turku

Bernard
Tue Oct 05 23:22:01 CDT 2004

Do you have urlscan installed ?

try set allowhighbit = 1
restart IIS and test again.

--
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



"Sebitti" <sebittionline@companysebitti.fi> wrote in message
news:F90EF288-00B6-4F9E-972A-310E1792EBC0@microsoft.com...
> Hi!
>
> We have a problem downloading files that have scandinavian marks in the
> filename from IIS server. I already posted this question to internet
transfer
> control newsgroup (because we are using itc for downloading) but they
> suspected that the problem is in the IIS server.
>
> I can't download files with IE either. IE lists files correctly showing
but
> when I click for example säsö.txt it says page not found.
>
> How should I code scandinavian marks in url (such as ä and ö) or what
> settings do I need to change in the server in order to download these
files?
>
> BR
> Johanna Turku

v-wzhang
Wed Oct 06 03:25:23 CDT 2004

Hi Johanna,

If you are using IIS5 on Windows 2000, one effort we can take is
making sure the registry property favorDBCS has been set to 0 (the
default is 1) at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/InetInfo/Paramete
rs

This will make IIS expects and serves URLs in Unicode.

A more doable and effective way is to urlencode all the URLs contain
extended characters in ASP or ASP.net, something like call
Server.URLEncode before Response.Write to output the URL.

Please update here if the issue still persists. Thanks.
Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Support
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

v-wzhang
Wed Oct 06 03:25:23 CDT 2004

Hi Johanna,

If you are using IIS5 on Windows 2000, one effort we can take is
making sure the registry property favorDBCS has been set to 0 (the
default is 1) at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/InetInfo/Paramete
rs

This will make IIS expects and serves URLs in Unicode.

A more doable and effective way is to urlencode all the URLs contain
extended characters in ASP or ASP.net, something like call
Server.URLEncode before Response.Write to output the URL.

Please update here if the issue still persists. Thanks.
Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Support
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

sebittionline
Wed Oct 06 07:41:02 CDT 2004

Hi Bernard,

Thanks a lot, we got it working. You are a lifesaver!

BR, Johanna

"Bernard" wrote:

> Do you have urlscan installed ?
>
> try set allowhighbit = 1
> restart IIS and test again.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://www.tryiis.com/
> http://support.microsoft.com/
> http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
>
>
>
> "Sebitti" <sebittionline@companysebitti.fi> wrote in message
> news:F90EF288-00B6-4F9E-972A-310E1792EBC0@microsoft.com...
> > Hi!
> >
> > We have a problem downloading files that have scandinavian marks in the
> > filename from IIS server. I already posted this question to internet
> transfer
> > control newsgroup (because we are using itc for downloading) but they
> > suspected that the problem is in the IIS server.
> >
> > I can't download files with IE either. IE lists files correctly showing
> but
> > when I click for example säsö.txt it says page not found.
> >
> > How should I code scandinavian marks in url (such as ä and ö) or what
> > settings do I need to change in the server in order to download these
> files?
> >
> > BR
> > Johanna Turku
>
>
>