I have Netscape Communicator 4.7 and RealPlayer 6.0.4.433 (Beta) installed on my potato system.
I went to this page on Broadcast.com, to access a local radio station: http://www.broadcast.com/radio/Rock/WKLS/ They have a button for a RealPlayer broadcast. I hit the button, at which point Netscape asked me to save a document called makeram.asp. I saved it, and it had these contents: pnm://raads.broadcast.com/ads/firstusa/visa2GW.ra pnm://209.0.225.168/wkls.ra The first URL is a Visa ad, and the second one is the broadcast I want. I can use RealPlayer's "Open Presentation..." command and enter the pnm://whateverblahblahblah, and it plays the thing. But, why doesn't Netscape just do the right thing? With some experimentation, it appears that when I click the button on the web page, Netscape eventually gets something of the form "http://somehost/makeram.asp?something". Rather than passing the "makeram.asp?something" back to the server, Netscape wants to save it, thinking it to be an unhandled file type. Anyone have any ideas about how I can fix this? A somewhat related question: many of the things on Broadcast.com are available only in Windows Media Player formats. Is there a way to play these under Linux? - Kris