Re: lynx-dev SUFFIX+VIEWER set to invoke tar

[C.W.Holeman II]

Greg Marr
>At 06:24 PM 8/17/98 -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
>>> >application/start-tar tar
>>>
>>> I created mime_types. with the above contents.
>>>
>>> I created mailcap. containing:
>>>
>>> application/start-tar; dir
>>>
>>> I placed in lynx.cfg:
>>>
>>> PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:mime_types.
>>>
>>> PERSONAL_MAILCAP:mailcap.
>>>...
>>> >It displays:
>>> >
>>> >application/x-tar D)ownload, or C)ancel
>>
>>I suspect that the problem is the operating system not reporting the
>>files as actually ending with "."
>
>The problem appears to be that the server is sending application/x-tar as
the
>MIME type, but the handler is only configured for application/start-tar.
Try
>adding the same handler for application/x-tar.  The suffix mapping, IIRC,
is
>only used for reading local files, and for access methods, such as ftp,
that
>don't send MIME types.


I changed the mailcap.dat file to:

    application/x-tar; dir

which causes it to no longer ask the download/cancel question but 1) flashes
that it is getting a file 2) a black screen then 3) redisplays the page.

I presume that it did the dir but I did not read fast enough to see it. :-)

This provides me with what I was attempting to do in this step which was
to control what application is invoked the user follows the link to a tar
file.

Thanks everyone.

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