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Well Netscape has to get the blame partially but a big part of the blame has
also to go to the guys administering the webserver as well. There is a file
called mime.types (it is there in linux systems as well probably under the conf
dir in httpd). Soemtimes stuff like rpm and gz tgz etc are not registered
there properly thus causing the webserver to send it out as default (which
happens to be text) In windows IE does a better job handling stuff that comes
in (it think it checks the extension with the associated applications etc) but
netscape will take what the webserver gives u.
Okay that's my 2 cents...
On 22-Jul-99 Matt Stegman wrote:
> This is a fault of Netscape. It foten thinks that binary files are
> actually text files, and so loads the binary file into the browser, giving
> you plenty of gibberish. It has something to do with file extensions and
> MIME types on the server, and I'm not sure if you can configure Netscape
> to override them (i.e. specify *.rpm, *.gz, *.bz2, etc. as binaries).
> Anyway, what you CAN do is hold down <SHIFT> while you click the link.
> That will tell Netscape that no matter what, you want to save the target
> of this link, not display it <whether it be binary, text, or unspecified).
>
> -Matt
>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Andrew R. Etzler wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to download the KxICQ file in Netscape 4.6. Previously
>> this has not been a problem. Just in the last day, instead of asking
>> where it should save the file to, it simply downloads the file into the
>> browser, giving me all sorts of gibberish. Has anyone run into this
>> problem? Any suggestions for how I can correct it?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Andy Etzler
>>
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