We're moving to a different server this week anyhow. The long description here wasn't needed. I think most of us have seen this in some form or another on other websites, and it's annoying. I'm just not going to fix it on a box we're about to stop using.
Chris On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 04:00 -0500, Richard L.Hamilton wrote: > Following the link on http://growl.info/downloads_developers.php > to http://growl.info/files/source/Growl-1.2.1-src.tbz > using Safari causes it to try to load the binary file as if > it were text (into the browser window). This is not good. > > I gather it's being identified (by default?) as text/plain. > Probably the .tbz suffix needs to be identified by the web > server as application/x-tar or application/x-bzip2 or something > like that; or as a last resort, application/octet-stream. > I'd guess that application/x-tar would be likeliest to > cause the browser to Do The Right Thing (esp. since tar on the Mac, > as well as GNU tar on Linux, can handle uncompressing automatically), > and application/octet-stream would cause it to download and do nothing > else. Not sure whether Safari and most other browsers would just > uncompress or do something more (and possibly inappropriate) if > they encountered application/x-bzip2, so I don't know that I'd want > to use that without testing. > > Yes, people can right-click and download. But why not get it right? :-) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
