Re: .tgz binaries displayed as text

[Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton]

>In MIME.CFG, which takes priority--the data type as reported by the server,
>or the file extension?  Is there any way to override the data type for a
>given extension?

It should be the content-type,  but clients usually rely on the extension
instead.  Since all those brain-dead windoze clients don't look at the
content-type,  server admins don't need to bother setting the content types
right (there is some kind of extension to content-type table on the
server),  and when you use a proper client that relies on content-type
information,  you usually find it's not available.

>I have used Arachne to obtain some Linux software from the web.  For whatever
>reason, the server is reporting a content type of "text/plain".  Therefore
>Arachne tries to display the file as though it was a text file.

If you hit that problem often with the same site,  tell the server admin.
He'll probably die of shame (putting unix downloads on a server and not
setting the content-type properly...  I'd say that should be a criminal
offense :-)

Charles