Re: LYNX-DEV FTP URL with ;type=I

[Howard Kaikow]

At 10:01 PM 4/13/97 -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
>But it is not clear to me whether you just want those files accessible to
>yourself, or you want to offer them to others (who may use different
>clients).  If the former, just use a personal mime.types file.
>If the latter, then there just is no automatic way to tell the browser
>how to handle the file.  That's the price for using the FTP protocol
>which doesn't handle meta-information.

I would everybody to be able to access them in the same way.
I'm using the FTP protocol for reasons that I best not get into, but they
involve economics. Also, I'd like to have the files available via regular
FTP, as well as thru the www.

>The HTML Pro DTD (<URL: http://www.ucc.ie/doc/www/html/dtds/htmlpro.html>)
>has a "type" attribute for the A alement, listed as follows:
>
>               type  CDATA    #IMPLIED
>               --<Title>Internet media type--
>
>I assume it is meant for what you have in mind, but AFAIK nobody is
>implementing it.

If nobody is implementing it, then I guess that I cannot use it.

>You could use some suffix that is more likely to be regarded as binary
>(maybe .bin).  You will still have to tell your downloaders what to do
>with it.  You might as well leave them as .doc and instruct them to
>use the 'D'ownload key with lynx, shift-click or whatever-it-is with
>other browsers etc.

But leaving it as .doc and 'D'ownloading with lynx results in text/plain,
that's the problem.

Seems as tho I must leave them as .zip and state that in the index.html.
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