> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Onanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 6:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Anonymous FTP
>
>
> Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > >Until proven otherwise, I would assume the default ftp
> download would be
> > >binary. This may bite me later.
> >
> > It's already "bit" us, I think.
> >
> > Isn't my report from yesterday a valid counter-example to
> your assumption?
> > Surely Sourceforge didn't *explicitly* make the extensions
> .img and .ima
> > text? I can't think of why they (or anyone) would.
>
> FTP is binary or text based on what the client does, not what
> the server says. When you FTP, you choose either binary or
> ASCII mode. FTP servers have no say in how you deal with it.
>
> Web browsers are not good FTP clients.
>
> However, it would be important to know how web browsers choose
> binary or ASCII for FTPing. I would guess that they do it
> based on their own mime-type list.
>
no, they trust the server's mime.types config file.
the web admin, should add the 'img' extension/string to the
'application/octet-stream' entry on the mime.types
pedro
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