FTPing from the Livingston web page (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 04:45:17 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Paul Schaller shaped the electrons to say...
>Is there something wrong with the new Livingston WWW page that when you try to
>download a Com OS that their FTP command doesn't kick off the FTP portion of s
>Netscape? Usually when you hit a web page with a FTP link, it just starts
>downloading it. Instead, on Livingston's site, it just displays the code on

No, that's Netscape's problem actually. There is no way to 'kcik off' the FTP
portion. NS treats HTTP and FTP pretty much the same, and it keys off of
MIME headers (available in HTTP, not FTP) and file suffix to know what to
do with it. And it's default behavior is 'display the file'. Since it
does not recognize something like 'pm3_3.5.1b20' it just displays it. Even
if you go directly to the FTP site, not going through the web at all, it will
display it.

Use the right mouse button and say 'save this link as' and you can force it to
save to a file.

-MZ

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