can't open SOME files - Inetserver

On Jul 11, 12:28 pm, "Arthur Dent" <hitchhikersguideto-n...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hello all, I have a problem which is being a major hindrance to being able
> to work.
>
> I have a web (actually a subweb) on a Windows 2003 box, with FPE installed,
> and all.
> I can open the project fine in Visual Studio 2008 (on Vista).
> But all of a sudden yesterday, I can no longer open CERTAIN files. Some
> files are completely fine,
> but other ones, when I try to open them, I get an error about
>
> "Unable to get file '<filename.ext>' from the Web server."
>
> The status bar says "Getting file ... from the web..." as usual, but then
> that error pops up.
>
> I tried recalculating the web. I did a server health check.
> I stopped and restarted IIS. I deleted the subweb and recreated it.
> I checked the physical file security properties...
>
> I cannot find anything off about the files that don't work, but it just
> won't let me open them.
> Any ideas???


Can you look at the IIS logfile entries for the files that fail to be
retrieved.

If the status/substatus/win32-error codes are "404 3 50", then the
failure is due to the fact that IIS6 disallows download of resources
with unspecified MIME Type for security reasons (and because of HTTP
compliance reasons). To make the filetypes downloadable, you need to
add a proper MIME Type for that extension.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

The status codes are all 200 0. It wouldn't be the mime/type, because it is
not limited to certain file types... just certain files.
Some aspx files I can open, some not. Some .aspx.vb files I can open, some
not.

And it doesn't give me any more useful information than just "Could not get
the file".

I can open the files directly from the web server though with no problems.





"David Wang" <w3.4you@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e637a4fc-b453-404a-9b72-cbc3a8d44b83@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com...
> On Jul 11, 12:28 pm, "Arthur Dent" <hitchhikersguideto-n...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello all, I have a problem which is being a major hindrance to being
>> able
>> to work.
>>
>> I have a web (actually a subweb) on a Windows 2003 box, with FPE
>> installed,
>> and all.
>> I can open the project fine in Visual Studio 2008 (on Vista).
>> But all of a sudden yesterday, I can no longer open CERTAIN files. Some
>> files are completely fine,
>> but other ones, when I try to open them, I get an error about
>>
>> "Unable to get file '<filename.ext>' from the Web server."
>>
>> The status bar says "Getting file ... from the web..." as usual, but then
>> that error pops up.
>>
>> I tried recalculating the web. I did a server health check.
>> I stopped and restarted IIS. I deleted the subweb and recreated it.
>> I checked the physical file security properties...
>>
>> I cannot find anything off about the files that don't work, but it just
>> won't let me open them.
>> Any ideas???
>
>
> Can you look at the IIS logfile entries for the files that fail to be
> retrieved.
>
> If the status/substatus/win32-error codes are "404 3 50", then the
> failure is due to the fact that IIS6 disallows download of resources
> with unspecified MIME Type for security reasons (and because of HTTP
> compliance reasons). To make the filetypes downloadable, you need to
> add a proper MIME Type for that extension.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //

If the status codes are all 200 0, then this is likely not an issue
with IIS because IIS already served up the content, and you said that
you can retrieve it from IIS directly.

You say that it occurred suddenly one day, and only certain files. I
would suggest looking at what you had changed recently on either
client or server (think about security, anti-virus, etc changes).
Perhaps something on the client is filtering the files based on its
contents, etc.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//



On Jul 13, 6:42 am, "Arthur Dent" <hitchhikersguideto-n...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> The status codes are all 200 0. It wouldn't be the mime/type, because it is
> not limited to certain file types... just certain files.
> Some aspx files I can open, some not. Some .aspx.vb files I can open, some
> not.
>
> And it doesn't give me any more useful information than just "Could not get
> the file".
>
> I can open the files directly from the web server though with no problems..
>
> "David Wang" <w3.4...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:e637a4fc-b453-404a-9b72-cbc3a8d44b83@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > On Jul 11, 12:28 pm, "Arthur Dent" <hitchhikersguideto-n...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hello all, I have a problem which is being a major hindrance to being
> >> able
> >> to work.
>
> >> I have a web (actually a subweb) on a Windows 2003 box, with FPE
> >> installed,
> >> and all.
> >> I can open the project fine in Visual Studio 2008 (on Vista).
> >> But all of a sudden yesterday, I can no longer open CERTAIN files. Some
> >> files are completely fine,
> >> but other ones, when I try to open them, I get an error about
>
> >> "Unable to get file '<filename.ext>' from the Web server."
>
> >> The status bar says "Getting file ... from the web..." as usual, but then
> >> that error pops up.
>
> >> I tried recalculating the web. I did a server health check.
> >> I stopped and restarted IIS. I deleted the subweb and recreated it.
> >> I checked the physical file security properties...
>
> >> I cannot find anything off about the files that don't work, but it just
> >> won't let me open them.
> >> Any ideas???
>
> > Can you look at the IIS logfile entries for the files that fail to be
> > retrieved.
>
> > If the status/substatus/win32-error codes are "404 3 50", then the
> > failure is due to the fact that IIS6 disallows download of resources
> > with unspecified MIME Type for security reasons (and because of HTTP
> > compliance reasons). To make the filetypes downloadable, you need to
> > add a proper MIME Type for that extension.
>
> > //David
> >http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> >http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> > //- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi, ... okay, I have tried disabling both my AV and firewall, neither
helped.
It must be something on the client, because I can open the same files fine
from another client...

I tried it from another client, and was able to open the same files just
fine. So it DEF had to be something on the client.
Finally, I thought of something else to try, which fixed it...

I went in Visual Studio, clicked on the website project, and looked in the
properties window,
at the property called "Full Path", which points to a locally cached copy of
the projct... at something like:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\VWDWebCache\<webSiteUrlPath>\

I deleted the whole directory <webSiteUrlPath> and then re-opened VS, and
all was good with the world again!

Thanks for the ideas and help... much appreciated.



"David Wang" <w3.4you@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:567b7066-66d9-4c60-9753-0b3b7b13f449@26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...
> If the status codes are all 200 0, then this is likely not an issue
> with IIS because IIS already served up the content, and you said that
> you can retrieve it from IIS directly.
>
> You say that it occurred suddenly one day, and only certain files. I
> would suggest looking at what you had changed recently on either
> client or server (think about security, anti-virus, etc changes).
> Perhaps something on the client is filtering the files based on its
> contents, etc.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>
>
>
> On Jul 13, 6:42 am, "Arthur Dent" <hitchhikersguideto-n...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> The status codes are all 200 0. It wouldn't be the mime/type, because it
>> is
>> not limited to certain file types... just certain files.
>> Some aspx files I can open, some not. Some .aspx.vb files I can open,
>> some
>> not.
>>
>> And it doesn't give me any more useful information than just "Could not
>> get
>> the file".
>>
>> I can open the files directly from the web server though with no
>> problems.
>>
>> "David Wang" <w3.4...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:e637a4fc-b453-404a-9b72-cbc3a8d44b83@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Jul 11, 12:28 pm, "Arthur Dent" <hitchhikersguideto-n...@yahoo.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hello all, I have a problem which is being a major hindrance to being
>> >> able
>> >> to work.
>>
>> >> I have a web (actually a subweb) on a Windows 2003 box, with FPE
>> >> installed,
>> >> and all.
>> >> I can open the project fine in Visual Studio 2008 (on Vista).
>> >> But all of a sudden yesterday, I can no longer open CERTAIN files.
>> >> Some
>> >> files are completely fine,
>> >> but other ones, when I try to open them, I get an error about
>>
>> >> "Unable to get file '<filename.ext>' from the Web server."
>>
>> >> The status bar says "Getting file ... from the web..." as usual, but
>> >> then
>> >> that error pops up.
>>
>> >> I tried recalculating the web. I did a server health check.
>> >> I stopped and restarted IIS. I deleted the subweb and recreated it.
>> >> I checked the physical file security properties...
>>
>> >> I cannot find anything off about the files that don't work, but it
>> >> just
>> >> won't let me open them.
>> >> Any ideas???
>>
>> > Can you look at the IIS logfile entries for the files that fail to be
>> > retrieved.
>>
>> > If the status/substatus/win32-error codes are "404 3 50", then the
>> > failure is due to the fact that IIS6 disallows download of resources
>> > with unspecified MIME Type for security reasons (and because of HTTP
>> > compliance reasons). To make the filetypes downloadable, you need to
>> > add a proper MIME Type for that extension.
>>
>> > //David
>> >http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
>> >http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
>> > //- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>