meino.cra...@gmx.de: > there is one feature of forefox, which bugs me: > On the same site (www.blenderswap.com) I click > to files to download. One is a *.blend, the > other one is a *.rar. > When I click the *.blend, the file gets downloaded > and stored on my hd at once -> bad! > When I click the *.rar, the file gets NOT downloaded > at once and instead I am offered a dialog, which > asks what to do. > > I looked into Preferences->Application, which lists > filetypes and the according action and DONT find > an entry for *.blend files.
What happens depends on the Content-Type with which the server delivers the file. Here is an example. http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/ Both files are identical text files, but hm.blend1 comes with text/plain and hm.blend2 comes with text/hafi. The last is unknown *g*, so it will be asked what to do. text/plain is well known and the browser will display its content. > Where can I change the action selected by Firefox > which gets executed for a certain filetype else? Look at the Content-Type of your *.blend. One way to do this is with HEAD which is part of libwww-perl. hafi@i5 ~ $ HEAD http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/hm.blend2 200 OK Connection: close Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "942355-b-4a590cf7e03b1" Server: Apache Content-Length: 11 Content-Type: text/hafi Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:01:21 GMT Client-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT Client-Peer: 85.13.136.212:80 Client-Response-Num: 1 Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)
