Hi,

we have a problem, when downloading binary files (e.g. *.xls - Excel -
worksheet) from our Webserver, being an
- Apache on RedHat-Linux, 
  /etc/mime.types - entry is: application/vnd.ms-excel xls
with 
- Netscape Navigator 4.6 / 4.7, 
  the Explorer-Filetype entry has the same (mime - file extension) pair.

When activating a link (left mouse button, shift + left mouse button,
right mouse button)
on such a file
  <a href="file.xls">an excel-file</a>
we find different behaviour on different PCs.

1st case: all is ok. You can decide as known: opening with excel, saving
on disk.

2nd case: left mouse button displays parts of the file content in the
browser window, as it is done for plain text files. Saving the file
increases the file size (as with unix to dos line end expansion for text
files).

The 2nd case was the behaviour for all clients, BEFORE I added the
mime-entry to the server, but what could be the reason for the
differences now?

Thanks in advance
Matthias Krause

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