On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 05:00:19 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikus Grinbergs) 
wrote:

> On 24 Aug 2002 01:29:07 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Forrester) 
>wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there  ANY  way for me to identify what kind of MIME-type is
> > > associated with the file to which an URL points ?
> > >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you can get WGET to tell you.  The time I noticed it,
> > I used the debug option, but, I've just noticed there's a
> > "--server-response" option to print the HTTP headers sent by the
> > server.
> 
> That's the second recommendation I've gotten to use WGET.
> I guess I need to install WGET and try it.
> 
> To me it seems absurd, when I am using a browser to see what
> downloads a webpage provides, that if I want more detail I
> have to start a completely DIFFERENT application to tell me
> about the SAME downloads.
> 

Something surface from the murky depths of my memory today.  I 
remembered seeing someway of displaying the headers within Mozilla.  
My first thought was that it was something on mozdev.org, but, as I 
looked, I remembered it was a bookmarklet.  So, off to Google for a 
quick search, which after a few clicks lead me to: 
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/validation.html#http_headers  
This is a bit of Javascript which will display the headers for the 
current page.  But, it's only an interface to 
http://webtools.mozilla.org/web-sniffer/ where you can enter a URL and
get the details displayed.  Another search for sites with Ogg files, 
and I saw either "Content-Type: text/plain" or "Content-Type: 
application/x-ogg".

I'm not sure if this is any better than running wget, but, it is an 
alternative.

-- 
David Forrester
davidfor at internode dot on dot net
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