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    copied!<p>Because of issues with the Content-Disposition header (character encoding, cross-browser support) I decided to give another way to dynamically serve files a try.</p> <p>Namely, I redirect the request to something like:</p> <pre><code>localhost/Download/Page.aspx/filename-without-extension </code></pre> <p>in order for the browser to pick up the file name at the end. I also supply the correct Content-Type header (as determined by my ripped off System.Web.MimeMapping class).</p> <p>Now, for ZIP files this actually works fine. The browser offers to save the file with the extension .zip. For all other file types I have tried (exe, pdf, doc), though, it won't suggest a file extension, which leaves the file unusable for most users.</p> <p><strong>I see only one option to get around this: I need to put the extension into the URL.</strong></p> <pre><code>localhost/Download/Page.aspx/filename.ext </code></pre> <p>But doing so leads to a 404 error or similar because the web server will now look for the file in the subdirectory Page.aspx which doesn't exist.</p> <p><strong>Is there any configuration directive that would enable me to change this behavior for a particular subdirectory?</strong></p> <p>The project is a standard ASP.NET 3.5 Website. I would prefer a solution that doesn't involve complicated configuration in the IIS Manager. The best solution for me would be a directive in the ASPX file itself though that is unlikely to exist because this is a routing issue on the application level. But a Web.Config setting in a location tag would be nice.</p>
 

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