Animated Symphony plane

[Keith Black]

Lance, this might be a web cache issue, either with your local browser or IIS (or whatever web server's being used).

Since you probably don't have the ability to restart the web server just leave it up there for a while and on your local machine flush history, temp files and close the browser then try again.  

Of course this might not be the problem, normally when I've seen this problem it's in the case of a file being updated and the local browser or the web server doesn't recognize that there's been an update to the file and it keeps using the old one.

I don't know anything about Comcast web hosting policies, but it's also possible that they won't allow any files to be downloaded until they do a local scan on the file, of course this is just a wild guess. Hey, maybe they are doing a scan on the file so when you named it they know something's fishy... Let me know when you figure it out.

Keith

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lance Van Nostrand 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:54 PM
  Subject: Animated Symphony plane


  I have this 3-D animation that allows the user to spin and manipulate a 3D model of our new Symphony plane on their computer.  It is way cool.  Even if you don't have any interest in the plane, playing with this animation of a very cool pattern plane is fun.  However, I can't seem to get it posted on my website.
       I realize this problem is only half related to this list, but I need a suggestion from the web masters out there.  I have a Comcast hosted site and it won't allow a hyperlink to work that I created to let users download this program.  I don't know what it doesn't like or how it knows.  At first I posted the file (it has an .exe extension) and the file is on the server and the hyperlink is visible, but clicking on it does nothing.  Then I figured it didn't want .exe files downloaded (maybe a virus fear) so I renamed it .ex_, .ddd, .xxx, even .doc (which I know works for Word docs) and still no luck.  Maybe it is the hyperlink itself.  Is there a way of making a hyperlink that does not launch the underlying object, just lets you download it?  Any suggestions welcome.

  --Lance
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