>On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:52:47PM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote: >> Please download that file from the website, on as many different platforms >> as possible, and tell me whether or not they work. > >Well if you put it on a server that's actually up at weekends it might help...
Until last Wednesday, ban.joh.cam.ac.uk had actually been up for 202 days solid. It unexpectedly went down sometime on Friday, and until the sysadmin can contact the computer manager, it's probably stuck unfortunately... >The result was that Netscape 3 on Windows did not corrupt either >of them. It did say "unknown type application/x-gzip" and >"unknown encoding x-gzip", but each file was saved properly and >could then be uncompressed and read. We think this problem is specific to Internet Explorer 5... interacting with the (perhaps slightly broken) server configuration. It _was_ being served as text/plain with encoding gzip, and should now be served as application/x-gzip compressed when abn reappears. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
