Mike Noyes wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:13, Ray Olszewski wrote:
This gets to the heart of the matter, and is the main reason I asked. I'm not sure that we should do anything. However, I'd be disappointed if a person using a leaf branch gets compromised because of IE problems. You probably know who I think would mistakenly get blamed.
If we would just admit that .lrp files are nothing more than stylized gzip-compressed tar files and change their extension to .tgz, we wouldn't have this problem.
If you are referring to the text/binary problem I raised, this is not true. It applies to any idiosyncratic extension, since most Web servers treat unknown extensions as type text.
Linux sites are often quite bad about this -- it's not at all unusual for me to have to switch over to wget on a Linux host to download an executable, if I'm following my normal everyday practice of using Netscape on Win2K. Not all Web servers even know what .tgz is (though I'm sure that Sourceforge does), and I've seen some that don't do .bin right. The .iso extension for CD images, and .img for (usually) floppy images, can be problems too. I think the cause is that Linux sites are usually run by people who use Linux (duh), and so they don't have to do any conversion of text files, so miss the problem.
There's really no getting around it that the Web server has to get it right ... and ideally (at least in my view), it should treat unknown extensions as binary files, not text files ... but I rarely see that approach implemented. Though I've just now been trying some of the Developer Content directories for LEAF ... the place where the oddball extensions tend to turn up ... and Sourceforge is treating a pretty wide range of stuff as binary -- examples are lrp, md5, md, cfg, config, patch, c, log, and no extension at all -- so they may do it this way. But it tries to send a .iso file (in cvs accessed through K.-P. Kirchdörfer's area) as text ... so go figure.
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