Hi:
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> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 22:36:17 +0800
> From: "Xander Solis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [plug] Apache or browser related problem [a bit OT]
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> Hi Ludwig,
>
> I personally encountered the same behavior on some test machines
> before running IE 5.0 / 6.0. (i switched to Firefox, issue resolved :)
> ) This seems to be an unresolved issue with the way the IE browser
> handles the application/x-gzip content-type.
>
> For more details, refer to the comments section of the discussion of
> this same issue on MSDN's blog.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2006/08/21/Content-Encoding-not-equal-Content-Type.aspx
>
> I'm not sure if this is only IE 6 centric or is resolved by IE 7, but
> I guess the easiest way is to advise your colleague to just use
> Firefox.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > The following is a the summary of the problem:
> >
> > A colleague tries to use an IE browser to view the listings of a
> > directory of 2 remote
> > machines. The remote machines are running apache as its web server. The
> > files are under the
> > directory are of type .pdf.gz
> >
> >
> > On one machine, when the user clicks the name of the file, the file is
> > uncompressed and
> the
> > pdf document is displayed on the browser. One the other machine, it prompts
> > the user to save
> the
> > file. Is this problem apache related? The colleague did some grep on some
> > of the apache
> > configuration file of both machines and it seems that they are similar
> > (Should have probably
> diff
> > them).
> >
> > If this problem is an apache problem, where does the problem reside?
> > mime.conf? httpd.conf?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ludwig Lim
> >
> >
> >
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> Xander Solis
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Thanks for the link to the article.
Does changing the following in file mime.types
application/x-gzip
to
application/x-gzip gz
helps?
[BTW, I'm not the sysad, so I can't restart the apache server and verify it
for myself]
Regards,
Ludwig Lim
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