Downloading certain file types

[Jason Gilbert]

I seem to be having a problem when I try to get the BITS service to transfer
certain file types from my web server (Windows server 2003). For example
when I try to transfer a file with the extension ".manifest" I get the
following error:

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The BITS service returned an error for the job with the ID
'f4d0b4b0-c3cc-4873-8b4d-a1e63ffcd488';
the job's name and description are 'BITS_Files_Download_Job' and
'BITS_Files_Download_Job'.
The BITS service error message for this job is
'The server has not found anything matching the requested URI (Uniform
Resource Identifier).

'.
This job has been canceled, and the DownloaderManager will attempt it
again. If you see this error frequently, you may have a mis-configuration,
or another
administrator process/user is canceling BITS jobs.
It is also possible that some mis-configuration of the Manifest file is
causing BITS to have trouble with a source or destination path;
be sure that all SOURCE paths are valid URLs, and that all DESTINATION
paths are valid LOCAL UNC paths--__shares are not allowed__.
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Other file types, like .DLL and .EXE transfer smoothly.

Any ideas?

TIA
Jason

[Sudheer GN [MS]]

Hi,
Can you try downloading the same file using a browser such IE and see if it
can download.
I suspect that you will not be able to download the file since IIS 6 is not
allowing the file to be downloaded. The issue is with "Known extensions"
security feature of IIS 6.
Please see this URL for more info about this feature and ways to correct the
issue
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/iisref/htm/troubleshootingcommoniiserrors.asp?frame=true#extensions

.manifest is not in the list of known extensions by default, where as .dll
and .exe are in the list.
--
Sudheer GN
Microsoft, BITS

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[Jason Gilbert]

That was it. Thanks!

Jason

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