Hartmut Figge <h.fi...@gmx.de> [11-06-13 07:32]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > > there is one feature of forefox, which bugs me: > > On the same site (www.blenderswap.com) I click > > to files to download. One is a *.blend, the > > other one is a *.rar. > > When I click the *.blend, the file gets downloaded > > and stored on my hd at once -> bad! > > When I click the *.rar, the file gets NOT downloaded > > at once and instead I am offered a dialog, which > > asks what to do. > > > > I looked into Preferences->Application, which lists > > filetypes and the according action and DONT find > > an entry for *.blend files. > > What happens depends on the Content-Type with which the server delivers > the file. Here is an example. > > http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/ > > Both files are identical text files, but hm.blend1 comes with text/plain > and hm.blend2 comes with text/hafi. The last is unknown *g*, so it will > be asked what to do. text/plain is well known and the browser will > display its content. > > > Where can I change the action selected by Firefox > > which gets executed for a certain filetype else? > > Look at the Content-Type of your *.blend. One way to do this is with > HEAD which is part of libwww-perl. > > hafi@i5 ~ $ HEAD http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/hm.blend2 > 200 OK > Connection: close > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT > Accept-Ranges: bytes > ETag: "942355-b-4a590cf7e03b1" > Server: Apache > Content-Length: 11 > Content-Type: text/hafi > Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:01:21 GMT > Client-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT > Client-Peer: 85.13.136.212:80 > Client-Response-Num: 1 > > Hartmut > -- > Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ > Von Usern fuer User :-) > >
Hi Hartmut, Oh, yeah! GREAT! I didn't know of "HEAD" at all - this nice tool fixes the problem at once! Great help, thank you very much ! :))) Have a nice "Pfingstmontag" :) Best regards, mcc
