On 22 Jul 2010 Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: > In article <cb3bb83a51.br...@bhowlett.plus.net>, Brian > Howlett <brian.gro...@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote: >> On 22 Jul, Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
>>> Twice in the last week or so I have downloaded zipped >>> archives from MW Software, using r10638. >>> In both cases I did not get an archive icon to drag to >>> a filer window, but the NetSurf window filled up with >>> the data. >>> I then had to save the page and re filetype it as >>> 'archive'. >> [snip] >>> Ideas? >> Shift click on the link? >> I think the issue is with MIME type settings on the >> server, which is unlikely to be something under Martin's >> control. I agree. This happens quite a lot with some sites. Some streetmap.co.uk pages get displayed as plain text instead of html. > Would that not mean that the same would happen on other > browsers? Though I do recall, when downloading images (TIFF > and JPEG) from the German Tourist Authority's website that > they give different instructions for downloading the > pictures for different browsers. Windows and MacOS browsers normally use the filename extension to determine the filetype so will generally not exhibit this problem. Make sure that you have entries for the relevant file types in your mimemap file (Configure > Network > MimeMap to make sure you get the right copy). -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com Confidentiality statement: Imagine 50 lines of pointless verbiage.
