Re: (PM) Re: improvement required for the ftp.livingston.com sit

Garry Shtern (shterng@akula.com)
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:23:27 -0500 (EST)

Why wouldnt it? Do you have the mime-type setup for that extension
telling the browsers this is not just a plain/text type?

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Jaime Bozza wrote:

> >Define using a browser correctly for an html referenced ftp link??
> >When you click on it, your browser should ask where you want to save
>
>
> I decided to check out what people were talking about, so I tried
> downloading the latest ComOS via Netscape (3 and 4) and IE (3 and 4) ...
> All of them displayed the file as a text file inside the browser window.
>
> So I hit back and right-clicked on the filename and choose "Save File As"
> (Netscape) or "Save Target As" (Internet Explorer), and the files saved just
> fine. Regardless of browser, the files compared with the original that I
> grabbed via the FreeBSD fetch command.
>
> The problem is that the browsers try to interpret files based on extensions,
> and ComOS files don't have (nor do I see that they should have) extensions.
> Right-clicking downloads the files fine.
>
> Jaime Bozza
> Nucleus Communications, Inc.
>
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