At 08:57 PM 04/10/2001 -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote
>Cynical Microsoft
>Internet Explorer, in contrast, knows full well that the world is full of
>misconfigured servers, weird file extensions, and the like ... so it
>applies
>some sort of test to the actual bitstream it receives to decide whether i
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> This really should be a FAQ answer.
What a gaping hole. I could have sworn it was on lrp.c0wz.com, but I
cannot find it.
> The Web server tells the browser what type of file a download is. For
> our purposes here, the important types are text and bi
Thus spoke Ray Olszewski:
> At 09:22 AM 4/10/01 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> [background stuff deleted]
> >I've updated my Apache configuration by adding the following to
> >/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> >
> > AddType application/octet-stream .lrp
> >
> >Unfortunately, I don't have a Windoze sy
At 09:22 AM 4/10/01 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
[background stuff deleted]
>I've updated my Apache configuration by adding the following to
>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
>
> AddType application/octet-stream .lrp
>
>Unfortunately, I don't have a Windoze system running Netscape to test it
>with.
At 09:27 AM 4/10/01 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote:
...
>>Mike -- wanna edit this into a FAQ entry?
>
>Ray,
>You read my mind. Unless you want to do it, I'll put something together and
>place it in sec00 later today.
You forget how lazy I am and how much I hate DocBook and all its cousins (as
I've wr
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> This really should be a FAQ answer.
This is one of the best and most understandable and most concise
answers I've seen...
> Consequently, the download problem only shows up under these three conditions:
>
> 1. The source site has failed to add ".lrp" to its mi
Ray Olszewski, 2001-04-10 20:57 -0700
> This really should be a FAQ answer.
>
>Consequently, the download problem only shows up under these three conditions:
>
> 1. The source site has failed to add ".lrp" to its mime-type
> list (the list that identifies files that are not
Thus spoke Ray Olszewski:
> This really should be a FAQ answer.
>
>
> Consequently, the download problem only shows up under these three conditions:
>
> 1. The source site has failed to add ".lrp" to its mime-type list
> (the list that identifies files that are not the de
This really should be a FAQ answer.
The Web server tells the browser what type of file a download is. For our
purposes here, the important types are text and binary. It's common for Web
servers to have text as their default types, and to use a list of filename
extensions to classify downloads. S
