Re: lynx-dev mime types?

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> >And someone yet else has corrected me that it's a server thing for gopher
> >and HTTP URLs, a client thing for file and FTP URLs.
> >
> >Can you give an example of a misbehaving URL?
> 
> www.apple2.org/marinetti/index.html, and the "mar.2.0.bxy" link on that
> page.

Since I don't have an Apple GSII I can't verify whether the download is
correct or not but I've already downloaded many binary files sent as
text/plain without any problems, just by using "d". Why don't you go to that
page, press "d" on top of mar.2.0.bxy and check yourself whether it was
correctly downloaded or not?

> >If it's an HTTP URL, you can do a HEAD request ("]" "l") or turn on
> >tracing with "^T" to see the headers the server sends. If the server says
> >"text/plain", I concur with Klaus -- the server is broken -- complain
> >about the server, not about Lynx.
> 
> Ok, so this is the real answer.  I'll email the guy about this.

No, it's not the real answer. Don't tell the guy his server is broken. It's
not. It's just that he hasn't set the extension bxy to
application/octet-stream.

Ismael
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