Downloading CAB files with Pocket Internet Explorer

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OK, the app is ported and tested on the target device.

The MS documentation says: "For example, an end user can use Pocket Internet
Explorer on a Windows CE-based device to download the appropriate .cab file
and run the file on the device to install the application", but when I
upload the .CAB and try downloading it through Pocket Internet Explorer, it
treats it as a text file and attempts to display it instead of saving it.

Should I be doing something different in PIE, or does something need
reconfiguring on my web server (Apache)? IE 6.0 correctly offers to download
the file.
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Re: Downloading CAB files with Pocket Internet Explorer by Frank

Frank
Thu May 26 12:41:58 CDT 2005

Thu, 26 May 2005 17:51:56 +0100, Joseph Bruno:

> OK, the app is ported and tested on the target device.
>
> The MS documentation says: "For example, an end user can use Pocket Internet
> Explorer on a Windows CE-based device to download the appropriate .cab file
> and run the file on the device to install the application", but when I
> upload the .CAB and try downloading it through Pocket Internet Explorer, it
> treats it as a text file and attempts to display it instead of saving it.
>
> Should I be doing something different in PIE, or does something need
> reconfiguring on my web server (Apache)? IE 6.0 correctly offers to download
> the file.

You could try it with an "official" site. At www.freecabs.de there are
plenty of CAB files for download. See if the same happens there. If
so, a workaround would be to go to the cache directory and get the
file from there.
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Re: Downloading CAB files with Pocket Internet Explorer by Alex

Alex
Thu May 26 16:47:37 CDT 2005

Make sure your web server sets content type to application/x-msdownload
For Apache see this for the instructions:
http://www.viaverio.com/index.cfm?page_id=484

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"Joseph Bruno" <nobody@nothing.com> wrote in message
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> OK, the app is ported and tested on the target device.
>
> The MS documentation says: "For example, an end user can use Pocket
> Internet Explorer on a Windows CE-based device to download the appropriate
> .cab file and run the file on the device to install the application", but
> when I upload the .CAB and try downloading it through Pocket Internet
> Explorer, it treats it as a text file and attempts to display it instead
> of saving it.
>
> Should I be doing something different in PIE, or does something need
> reconfiguring on my web server (Apache)? IE 6.0 correctly offers to
> download the file.
>
>
>

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Re: Downloading CAB files with Pocket Internet Explorer by Joseph

Joseph
Fri May 27 07:28:43 CDT 2005

Yes, that worked: thank you!

"Alex Feinman [MVP]" <public_news@alexfeinman.com> wrote in message
news:%23YufuxjYFHA.796@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Make sure your web server sets content type to application/x-msdownload
> For Apache see this for the instructions:
> http://www.viaverio.com/index.cfm?page_id=484


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