On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:41:56PM -0400, Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Try shift-click
| > Stew Benedict
| Yup! I just discovered that. Thanks for the response. Sure works well..
Until the "Download" link is actually a link to a page to download.
Depressingly common. What really narks me is links labelled something like:
app-version.tar.gz
which actually link to a page with stuff on it. Clearly it means the
page author is a complete tosser, but the shift-click thing will
happily download a 2k HTML page instead of your desired app, which is
one click deeper..
Just something to keep an eye out for.
Also bear in mind that this behaviour is dependent on the config of the
web server you're fetching from: content on type
"appplication/octet-stream" will also get you a save dialogue with a
plain click, as will content types that netscape doesn't know about.
Content types are described by the server; generally it has a table of
file extensions and types, and things not in the table get the
application/octet-stream type.
Another funny is that some (many) servers will label .gz files as
being gzipped (an encoding from HTTP's point of view). Netscape will
happily (and without asking, dammit!) decompress these on the way in.
While leaving the filename unchanged. So you end up with, say
app-version.tar.gz
which is in reality an _uncompressed_ tar file. And woe betide you if
you're short on space :-)
Just a few things to keep in mind.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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Reason itself is a matter of faith.
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