Cant serve image files with iis

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A very strange problem: have XP pro, running IIS. When
remote users open webpages, the domain resolves
appropriately and is found on the XP/IIS machine but then
chokes when requesting image files (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg).
The remote browser hangs until timeout.

There does not seem to be a problem sending text or std.
html rendering. But almost all images are unservable.
Nor does it seem to be a file issue with the image itself
since good-ol'-reliable UNIX web servers can serve 'em up
just fine. What makes the problem even stranger is that
SOME images are servable. But, the only images that work
are the default .gifs that microsoft stores in the
wwwroot folder of IIS' default web site. But, as
mentioned, those images can be served ... all others,
however, fail.
 
Are the images located in a subfolder? The only thing I
can come up with is that you may have them in a subfolder
and don't have the permissions set correctly?

Perhaps someone else has a bettter suggestion.
 
I thought that might be the problem too so I checked all
my folders for the correct permissions. Thinking then
that I perhaps was still missing something even if
everything looked correct, I moved the images to the root
directory with no result.

Thanks for the thought though! Weird, eh?
 
This doesn't seem permissions related, since that would result in a prompt
for credentials. Unless a file type is mapped, e.g. .ASP or .PL, then it is
considered a static file by IIS. So if a .JPG is handled differently than
say .TXT, I suspect that IIS is being instructed to do so perhaps through a
filter or mapping.
 
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