On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, David MacAlpine wrote: > 2. Have the users binhex the file before storing it in the database. > Not likely most users would be baffled.
I'm newish to the Mac world -- a year or so -- but my understanding is that this is generally the canonical way to transfer files around if you want to preserve the Mac metadata -- get them to compress / archive the files somehow (binhex, zip, sit, hqx, tgz, etc), even if it's just one file and even if it only compresses one percent. If the people aren't comfortable with doing this already, surely it should be easy to teach them how to drop their file(s) on the StuffIt icon before uploading them, no? > Does anyone have any clever ideas? Is there a way to specify to tell > the browser(netscape/mozilla) to binhex the data before uploading? I'm not 100% sure, but I've never heard of a mechanism that could get a standard browser to automagically do something like this. It's a bit harsh, but you could just teach them how to do it before hand, and then have your upload script either reject or issue a warning about any files that don't have a mime type of application/x-binhex or whatever it is. With the warning, they'd at least know that they're likely to have problems with the file later, and maybe it can have a short description of how to create the binhex file so that they can try again... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
