On Thu, 16 May 2002 14:07:17 UTC, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:
> Stan Goodman wrote: > > > FWIW, I have just downloaded a ZIP file from Hobbes, and RC2 did NOT > > append the .exe extension. I have made no changes in any option in RC2 > > since a previous download from another site did append it. > > If you used the hobbes UI, the download was actually an http download - if the > mime type was correct (zip), then a prefix doesn't get added. > > FTP Doesn't send a mime type. That makes it very clear. Thank you, Mike. But it's hard to see a reason for the browser to append undesired extensions for FTP downloads simply because of this difference between the HTTP and FTP protocols, and because the file happens to be on an FTP server rather than HTTP. To the user of the browser, the two servers look pretty much alike. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European wrinkle.
