The MIME type associated with JAR files received from an Apache server on various machines is incorrect. It returns a content type of text/plain, however, JAR files should be treated as binary data. Maybe the defaults shipped with the server need repair.
John bash-2.00$ telnet www.ccs.neu.edu 80 Trying 129.10.111.97... Connected to alderaan.ccs.neu.edu. Escape character is '^]'. GET http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/make/jmk.jar 1.0 GET http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/make/jmk.jar 1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:39:48 GMT Server: Apache/1.2.4 Last-Modified: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:19:31 GMT ETag: "10ebe-173f4-34b9fc43" Content-Length: 95220 Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain .....
