"File Download - Security Warning"

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Hank Oredson

It's still there. Started with SP2.

Last I heard was "The tuesday patches will fix this."
The patches arrived on schedule, did not fix.

Browsing a web page on a server on our intranet.
In fact the server (Apache) is running on the same machine.
Click on a link to an MP3, and get the pop-up.
Don't want the pop-up. Want the MP3 to play, just like
it does in Netscape and Firefox. Have tried all suggestions
such as "allow active X" etc. etc.

If I assign Windows Media Player as the default viewer
for file type .mp3, then it will play without prompting.
But I don't use WMP, and do not want to use WMP.
I use WinAmp to play audio stuff.

So what in holy blue blazes to I have to do to make IE
work like it used to, or is that now impossible?

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... Hank

http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli
 
Open WMP. In the Options menu, uncheck the box for making WMP the default
player for .mp3 files. Close WMP. Open WinAmp. In the Options menu, check
the box for making WinAmp the default player for .mp3 files. Close WinAmp.
Open Windows Explorer. Choose any .mp3 file. Right click and choose
Properties. Make "Open With" select WinAmp.
 
Hank said:
Did those things, and when I click on the link in IE I get
the pop-up "File Download - Security Warning."

--

... Hank

http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli
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Hank:

I'm afraid you're going to have to live with it. Unless you change the
default application system-wide for mp3s to WMP (Windows Media Player),
you'll have to live with the dialog box to use any 3rd party mp3
player. This does not apply to mp3 streams from m3u services (don't
know about when the mp3 filename is saved in a file with a m3u
extension).

I found this out with IE SP2 using WinAmp and was getting the dialog
box with the security warning. Changed the default app for mp3 to WMP
(this is done within WMP so WMP is now tied to the Windows OS) and it
went away. This also changed my mp3 application association within
Firefox and when I reset it back to WinAMP within Firefox, it affected
the association to be system-wide as well, so you don't have a choice
which media player you wish to use within your respective browsers
until M$ loses the security warning, unless you're willing to live with
that irritation.

I'd just stop using IE and WMP altogether and stick with Firefox /
WinAMP. You don't run into these kinds of problems with this combo and
the experience is just as enjoyable and less hazardous.

Best Regards,
Van
 
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