"Race to the bottom"
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 5:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published! On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:18:55 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Associations? Doesn't the IBM server send file types? Doesn't Chrome support >file types, which have been in HTTP >since Old Man Noach cornered the market in Gopher Wood. (Isn't that metaphor getting kinda stale?) It's OK o use associations if the server doesn't send file types; it's not OK to ignore the file types that the server send. >Extensions are for dancers. > I (and I suspect the previous poster) were using the expanded .zip archive, newly available. Zip has little facility to store MIME Content-types. I readily created a MacOS association that opens Adobe Reader when I click on index.pdx. We don't know how to educate (some) browsers to that association. Is there a published Content-type for .pdx? Is that index.pdx accessible via HTTP, or only by extraction from the .zip? If the former, what does IBM's HTTPD supply as Content-type? The trend among browsers is to become increasingly dumb about MIME headers and to rely more on filename extensions or even guessing from content. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
