Brain Exploding Madness

[kenji776]

Hey everyone, I have found a very odd error that has totally fried my brain.
I have a query and a loop that read all files from a dir, then posts them as
links, easy enough right? Well get this, think links it makes don't work with
the extensions of the files. Most of the files are .smc files (those are roms)
which need to be downloaded. Those links don't work. So just out of curiosity I
zipped one with making it a .rar, and that link works. So in short,
<a href="../Downloads/SNESRoms/7th - Saga.rar">7th - Saga.rar</a>
Works just fine, however
<a href="../Downloads/SNESRoms/7th - Saga.smc">7th - Saga.SMC</a>
Does not work. Which also meant that
<cfoutput><a
href="../Downloads/SNESRoms/#snes_rom_dump.name#">#snes_rom_dump.name#</a>
Does not work, because it uses the .smc extension. Just so you know the peice
of code I'm trying to use for this is...
<cfdirectory action="list" directory="d:\ftp\digital
swordsmen\downloads\SNESRoms\" name="snes_rom_dump">
<cfloop query="snes_rom_dump">
<cfoutput><a
href="../Downloads/SNESRoms/#snes_rom_dump.name#">#snes_rom_dump.name#</a><br></
cfoutput>
</cfloop>

So yeah, I cannot think of any reason the links from the query, (any link that
ends in .smc) doens't work. Does anyone have any ideas? Im losing my brain
here. I would just zip them all and host those as downloads, but I don't have a
way to zip each file and not turn then all into a giant archinve. Seeing as
there are a few hundered of these files I need to find an automated way to have
these downloadable. Ugh, my brain hurts.

[Adam Cameron]

> Well get this, think links it makes don't work with

> the extensions of the files.

What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Can you elaborate a bit more?

--

Adam

[kenji776]

Yeah, it says page cannot be found, 404 error. Although I did find a workaround to this prob, I would still like to know what people think.

[Ro]

My first guess is that the web server doesn't know how to handle the
smc file and the MIME headers. hence the reason why once it's rarred
or zipped it downloads fine.

Have you tried using other browsers? (e.g. Opera, Netscape, etc)

If you're hosted it's possible that the host disallows serving files
considered to be illegal (like ROMs, which violate copyright laws).

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:48:43 +0000 (UTC), "kenji776"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>Yeah, it says page cannot be found, 404 error. Although I did find a workaround to this prob, I would still like to know what people think.