On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:22:25PM -0500, Mathew Ryden wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > It really irritating to keep being asked if I "really" want to download
> > that mp3.
>
> You can add it yourself you know. :)
>
> I don't know the real reason, but if someone is using wmp (windows media
> player) to play their audio it will guess the mimetype, and some media types
> supported by wmp will automatically open up http sessions, breaking
> anonymity.
Well, we already warn about Internet Exploder...
I think the basic problem with both ogg and mp3 was that some players
may automatically fetch URLs or otherwise communicate with the internet
in response to data in the file... there was something about the Media
Player included in XP doing this?
>
> > Rob.
>
> -Mathew
>
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