Google Earth KMZ files behaving badly

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi


One of my users has added a Google Earth KMZ file as a file asset and hyperlinked to it from a standard page. If I click on the resultant link in FireFox (3.0.7) it behaves as expected, asking to open with Google Earth, however if I try in Internet Explorer (7) I get a dialog asking me to open or save a zip file.



Can anyone explain this behaviour, and more improtantly tell me how to fix it?



Thanks

Pete

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[quote]Hi


One of my users has added a Google Earth KMZ file as a file asset and hyperlinked to it from a standard page. If I click on the resultant link in FireFox (3.0.7) it behaves as expected, asking to open with Google Earth, however if I try in Internet Explorer (7) I get a dialog asking me to open or save a zip file.



Can anyone explain this behaviour, and more improtantly tell me how to fix it?



Thanks

Pete[/quote]



You could try adding the mime type to apache:



AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml

AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz



might work…



K

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[quote]You could try adding the mime type to apache:


AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml

AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz



might work…



K[/quote]



Hey



Thanks for getting back to me. We tried that with no joy unfortunately. Would you suggest also placing these mime types into [size=2]fudge/standards_lists/mime_types.inc





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and possibly a reference into [size=2]fudge/standards_lists/file_types.inc



It lo[/size][size=2]oks like the system is pushing the file out with mimetype text/plain, which is leaving it up to the browser to guess, which FF gets right and IE (surprisingly) gets wrong.



Cheers

Pete



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[quote]Hey


Thanks for getting back to me. We tried that with no joy unfortunately. Would you suggest also placing these mime types into [size=2]fudge/standards_lists/mime_types.inc





[/size]

and possibly a reference into [size=2]fudge/standards_lists/file_types.inc



It lo[/size][size=2]oks like the system is pushing the file out with mimetype text/plain, which is leaving it up to the browser to guess, which FF gets right and IE (surprisingly) gets wrong.



Cheers

Pete



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Does this file have a __data URL? If so, it is being served by Apache, and Matrix does not effect it, so, if that is the case Apache would be what you need to configure.