Okay, we have a web server, that serves up a whole bunch of sites. Numerous of our sites serve up zip files, without any issue.
On one site however, it refuses to serve them up. The file names are longerish (though not really long by any imagination) ... for example: 01-EXPORT-20120403.121040.zip
. I thought maybe it had issues with the length or with the format of the filename, so I tried changing one of them to just zip.zip
... but it still wouldn't serve it up.
In IE you get the error page: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
In FF you get the error page: The connection to the server was reset
I wanted to see if it was specifically zip files, so I put a dummy hello.txt
file in the directory and tried browsing to that and it works fine, changed the extension to .zip
and then it had the same error, so it seems to be specific to zip files.
I made sure that the mime-type is set up for zip files on the site exactly as it is on sites which successfully serve up zip files:
I checked the IIS server logs, and I see the entries where the file is being requested, and the server status code being logged is 200 (SUCCESS), so that didn't help me any.
I set all failure auditing ON on the file, thinking maybe it was a permissions issue, browsed, got the error, then checked the security logs on the server, but there were no failure audits.
I fired up Firebug in FF, and this is what it shows me:
But I cannot for the life of me figure out WHY the server is aborting the file.
Any ideas what or where I can look for more information to try to get it to serve up these files?
I've tried restarting IIS on the machine, tho not actually restarting the machine yet.
The IIS/Windows version is Windows Server 2003 R2.
CLARIFICATION: This is actually on one sub-directory application under a site. Yet, another sub-directory application under the same site serves zip files up fine (as well as other actual sites on the same server). Both applications (working and non-working) are running on ASP.NET 4.0.
I also thought maybe the files were too big, but I looked at the file size, and they are only like 2KB, so I doubt that is the problem.
UPDATE: I did a little more testing, it worked on a 'Classic' ASP site, so thought maybe it was only on ASP.NET sites. Tried it on a .NET 3.5 site and it worked, so thought maybe only on .NET 4.0 sites. Tried it on another .NET 4.0 site and it worked, so it is apparently not tied to .NET or to a .NET version.