On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:33:31 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Glenn,
> I have to disagree with you.
> On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 17:31:38 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> IMHO, this *is* a problem with Arachne.
>> You see, by default Arachne is treating files without "content-type" as
>> if they are text/plain.
>> Again IMHO, they sould be treated as text/html
> Finding "content type" in the META tags of a web page is the exception
> rather than the rule. Do some snooping around the web and you'll see
> for yourself.
You misunderstand where I'm speaking of finding the "content-type".
Where I mean is in the .HTT file which contains the information about
the file being D/Led. (press the = key after D/Ling a page)
Here are the .HTTs from the 3 sites you mention....
<TITLE>HTTP header of http://www.altavista.com/</TITLE><PRE>
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:08:03 GMT
Server: AV/1.0.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Length: 23212
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: AV_USERKEY=AVSe0479c0c7f0000210010ac0004d6e; expires=Tuesday,
31-Dec-2013 12:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.altavista.com;
</PRE><HR>URL:<A
HREF="http://www.altavista.com/">http://www.altavista.com/</A><BR>Local:<A
HREF="file:63274048.HTM">\arachne\cache\63274048.HTM</A><HR>
<TITLE>HTTP header of http://home.snap.com/</TITLE><PRE>
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Netscape-Communications/1.12
Date: Tuesday, 11-Jul-00 00:09:01 GMT
Set-Cookie:
s_cur_0_0=0101sisi0963274141edded3Jx4+POyMKqqJqemNCqqajRn5anoZx6a4Ln5crU5M7Rxq2qm5eZo6WooG0=;
path=/
Set-Cookie: u_edition_0_0=home; path=/; domain=.snap.com; expires=Thu,
31-Dec-2037 23:59:59 GMT
Content-type: text/html
</PRE><HR>URL:<A
HREF="http://home.snap.com/">http://home.snap.com/</A><BR>Local:<A
HREF="file:63274116.HTM">\arachne\cache\63274116.HTM</A><HR>
<TITLE>HTTP header of
http://www.thetechpage.com/cgi-bin/default.cgi?main</TITLE><PRE>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:10:03 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.1 (Unix)
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
</PRE><HR>URL:<A
HREF="http://www.thetechpage.com/cgi-bin/default.cgi?main">http://www.thetechpage.com/cgi-bin/default.cgi?main</A><BR>Local:<A
HREF="file:63274193.HTM">\arachne\cache\63274193.HTM</A><HR>
And now the one for http://www.networldmap.com/
<TITLE>HTTP header of http://www.networldmap.com/</TITLE><PRE>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:15:53 GMT
Expires: 0
</PRE><HR>URL:<A
HREF="http://www.networldmap.com/">http://www.networldmap.com/</A><BR>Local:<A
HREF="file:63274289.TMP">\arachne\cache\63274289.TMP</A><HR>
That's why Arachne is treating this page as text/plain.
(no content-type information is being sent from the server)
*That's* the change I am proposing.
In the absence of content-type, treat the file as text/html not text/plain
> try http://jump.altavista.com
> You won't find the META tag that says content is text/html
> Try http://home.snap.com and check there. No text/html
> Or http://www.thetechpage.com/cgi-bin/default.cgi
> It is *not* the META tags that determine how Arachne sees a page; it is
> what the server sends as "file type" that makes some html pages be shown
> as text.
See above explanation. <g>
> Arachne cannot "argue" with the sending server; if it could you might
> find yourself saving ASCII versions of d/l'd zip files. <G> On ftp I
> have the choice of get/bget but I don't have the choice of changing a
> text file to binary by telling the ftp server to *get* the text file in
> binary form. I know that's a fact, because I just tested it. I used
> bget vol1iss3.txt and the operation switched over to binary mode for the
> entire download, then back to A. But the file is still text/plain
> anyway. <G>
During ftp download, Arachne does not generate an .HTT
(ftp servers don't send this information the way that http servers do)
Therefore, Arachne (and all other ftp programs), use the files
extension to decide what shall be done with that file.
Link to ftp://ftp.lineo.com/
(pressing = will simply switch you to a "text display" of the .ftp file)
To confirm that no .HTT was generated, look in \arachne\cache\headers\
(the newest file will be from the last http D/L you did)
Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA
DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html
Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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