Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> I don't understand this; why is it different from the user's point
> of view whether or not his request from netscape goes through squid?
When a browser uses FTP without a proxy, the browser decides on what the
filetype is, but when you use a proxy then the proxy decides. FTP does
not include any information on file types.
The default configuration of Squid is binary transfer of text/plain
content. Some browsers are known to translate text/plain contents when
you save to disk, and to let the users work around this a separate
download icon is provided which forces binary transfer of content type
application/octet-stream.
The default setting of binary text/plain is on popular request to allow
easy viewing of unknown files.
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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
