On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:49:37 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron) opined: > I have Mozilla 1.0rc2 (no fixes) on Warp 4 and it does the same > thing...but only for certain types. I don't know if its the assigned > mime type of the file or simply the extension, but it appears that the > type of the file determines what Mozilla does; and there are 3 > different ways that Mozilla may try to open a file: > > 1. If the type is defined as an "application" (such as MIME type > "application/octet-stream"), then Mozilla tries to download the file, > assumes that the file requires a .exe extension, and adds one if it > does not have that extension. > 2. If the file is an HTML/text file (such as "text/plain"), then it > tries to load it in the browser window and view it. There are a couple > other types that fall under this category as well. > 3. If the type is anything else, then Mozilla will try to download the > file, but does NOT try to change the extension. > > However, if you SHIFT+click on a file and you get a different result. > Mozilla will try to download the file as-is without trying to change > its name. This is a possible work-around for the problem described. It > still doesn't make any sense to ever change the extension of a file, > but at least this works.
Sometimes it would work. Suppose the URL is a complete one, including even the filename. -- 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.
