Rather than all the others (sorry), this information written by John
Olsson is both the explanation and solution (server side) to the problem
of downloading certain types of binary data with netscape (some versions).
This is a very rare problem and that may be why many users don't even
understand what is the real issue. It shouldn't happen in the first
place... but it does...rarely.
It may happen only in some versions of netscape, only with certain
file extensions, with only some content-type: labels by the server...
Maybe some netscape versions should do the WRONG thing (like IE) , and pay
more attention to the file extension, than to the "content-type:" line in
the web server answer 8!
Cheers, Silvio
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, John Olsson wrote:
> When send a file via HTTP the WWW-server appends a MIME file type to the file
> being sent. If the WWW-server is not configured apropriately (e.g. the
> WWW-server says it is an ASCII-file but is actually a gzip:ed file) you might
> get this kind of problem.
>
> The borowser uses the MIME types when deciding what to do with the file, and if
> you have configured the helper applications wrongly you might also get this kind
> of problem.
>
> /John
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