Ray Olszewski wrote:
> >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.
>
> This has been discussed again and again back on the LRP list. Neither of the
> major browsers does what you guess.
No, it hasn't. Those discussions have been about HTTP, not FTP.
> Netscape trusts the accuracy the mime type reported by the Web server.
> Period. If it is wrong, then Netscape handes the file wrong.
I agree, but we're not talking about a Web server. We're talking
about a FTP server. Netscape is welcome to trust the accuracy
of the FTP server if it wants, but the FTP server won't be
saying anything; so Netscape will still have to figure out what
to do with the file.
> IE starts with this same mime type, but also does some (undocumented, to my
> knowledge) analysis of the file itself to see if a text designation is
> plausible, then overrides it to binary if the plausibility tests fail. This
> is why some sites advse people having problems with downloads to try IE
> (basically, so the site managers can be lazy about configuring their
> mime-type lists properly).
I don't know if IE applies the same analysis to FTP files as ones
retrieved via HTTP, but I should hope so. There would be some
redeeming value for it. ;)
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