On 3 Nov 2000, at 10:55, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 01:16 PM 11/3/00 -0500, Rick Onanian 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.
>
> Netscape trusts the accuracy the mime type reported by the Web server.
> IE starts with this same mime type, [...]
Unless I'm mistaken, the FTP protocol has nothing whatsoever to do
with mime-types, et al - only "ascii" or "bin" - and this only to do
carriage-return conversions.
Mime-types, I believe, are only present in HTTP downloads, which is
why web-servers have to be configured with the proper mime-types for
*.ima or *.pac or whatever. When you make a FTP download, you are
communicating with an FTP server, not an HTTP server (web server).
You might be using Netscape or IE, but it is acting as a FTP client,
not a HTTP client (web browser) - so FTP from anywhere should be okay.
But if it is an HTTP download, then we find all those problems we
hashed over and over before.
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David Douthitt
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