> On Mar 20, 2017, at 10:00 PM, Rick Aurbach <[email protected]> wrote: > > BUT...what I want to do next is to click on a link on a webpage (i.e., an <a > href=“”> element pointing to a ‘.poetry’ file) and have the file downloaded > and opened by my app.
To be a little bit pedantic: it’s best not to think about things on the web as ‘files’; it gives you a misleading idea of how they work. The general term is resources. They’re likely not stored in the filesystem on the server, the HTTP protocol is not like a network filesystem, and the browser on your device is not treating these resources as files unless it’s explicitly told to download them. > What currently is happening is that clicking on the link causes the file to > be displayed as if it were text in Safari/iOS. Sounds like the HTTP response has a Content-Type of some sort of text. HTTP resources have MIME types, which are the authoritative information of what type of data they are. The suffix in the name is usually ignored, except as a heuristic to call back to if there isn’t a meaningful Content-Type. The MIME type of the resource is up to the server. If this resource really is a file uploaded to the server, then the server will need to have a mapping somewhere that tells it what filename extension maps to what MIME type. Otherwise it’ll probably make one up, maybe by looking at the beginning of the data and deciding whether it looks like text. —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
