I can't get staticContent mimeMap to work

Question

User-1928628111 posted

The docs say you can add the following to my web.config file, but httpsniff shows that my mp4 file is still being returned as application/octet-stream.  Anyone know why the StaticFilehandler is not honoring my mimeMap confication?

<configuration>
  <system.webServer>    
    <staticContent>
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4"/>            
    </staticContent>
    <handlers accessPolicy="Read, Write, Script, Execute"> 
      <add name="mp4" path="*.mp4" verb="*" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" preCondition="integratedMode" />      
    </handlers>            
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>    

 

Answer 1

User-166373564 posted

Hi clovett

It seems  there isn't anything wrong with the codes above, you could learn Handlers <handlers> and  <system.webServer> below,

Handlers <handlers>

<system.webServer>  

I think you could have a try add the codes below to your web.config file

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

    <system.webServer>

      <staticContent>

        <mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4"/>

      </staticContent>

    </system.webServer>

</configuration>

Please check whether helpful to you.

Kind regards

Answer 2

User1957418580 posted

Can you make sure that you have this in the applicationHost.config:

            <section name="staticContent" overrideModeDefault="Allow" />

Do you happen to have a link that we can browse to so that we can check the response for ourselves?