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												Afternoon all,

I'm trying to deliver video to a mobile phone over HTTP.  The phone connects to a web page.  The web page contains a link to a .3gp video file.  The user clicks the link to watch the video (progressive download ideally)... however, what actually happens is that most clients (mobile phone web browsers) seem to think "ah ha, a .3gp file - it's obviously just a big web page - I'll download it".  They try.  They fail, presenting an error message "Page too large".

Now I've tried to force the content-type (to almost everything under the sun) both from the link and from the web server configuration (Apache but hosted, so no direct access to httpd.conf), but no success.

This (messy) test page has been used to find the best solution for PDAs & Mobiles, but the finalists are at the top:
http://www.interactory.com/test/video.html

At the moment I'm suspecting that it may only be possible over WML.

Has anyone done anything similar over HTTP or WML?

Cheers, Alex

Alex Stanhope

Tested mainly on Sony Ericcson K750i on Orange.
Lightenna Ltd.
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