How to prevent Internet Explorer from playing wav files?
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06-07-2019 - |
Question
Unfortunately I've a problem with IE =( I have a service on IIS that returns me a wav file. So if I go to the URL of the service, IE tries to play returned wav file with Window Media Player.
Can I set any setting in the IE (7 or 8) to deny it play wav file with WMP and allow only show Open \ Save \ Cancel dialog?
Usually I use Firefox and it has parameters to set actions for different MIME type. Is there anything similar with IE?
Solution
I've not tried it, but does adding
Content-Disposition=attachment
to the response header fields help?
OTHER TIPS
Why not just make IIS serve wav
files with application/octet-stream
mime type?
If Kalmi's answer doesn't work and you're on IE8, you can also try adding this to the response header:
Response.AddHeader("X-Content-Type-Options", "nosniff");
Not sure if that will kill IE's MIME handling all-together, but it's another thing to try.