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Re: lynx-dev mime types?
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Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev mime types? |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 00:12:55 -0600 (CST) |
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Ismael Cordeiro wrote:
> >You can do it by pressing "d" on the link.
>
> Ok, but the problem when I do that is that Lynx says
> text/plain
That's what the server says. Lynx is just reporting it to you.
Unless you are talking about ftp URLs, which is a different story,
but I'l lassume you mean http URLs.
> and I'm trying to download binary data.. Thus isn't this corrupting my data?
It shouldn't. Certainly not on Unix, VMS may be a different story.
Try it.
If you get corrupt data, it has most likely been sent corrupted.
(The only case where lynx might mess with 'd'ownloaded data saved to a
file is text/html, when it prepends a BASE tag and some other stuff.)
> BTW, all I was trying to do was follow the same steps given to modify
> browsers for downloading Apple II files.. basically IE and Netscape-intended
> directions.
If those directions are based on IE, they are probably wrong, because IE
is wrong.
> Someone else mentioned that mimetypes were a *server* thing.. Ok, my
> impression that this was basically the same as setting up application mappings
> in GUI browsers.. which is definitely an end user thing.
Solve the problem at the source, which is the server.
Klaus
- lynx-dev mime types?, mattack, 1999/01/01
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, pg, 1999/01/01
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, Michael Warner, 1999/01/01
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/01/01
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, mattack, 1999/01/02
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, Larry W. Virden, 1999/01/02
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?,
Klaus Weide <=
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/01/02
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, pg, 1999/01/02
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, mattack, 1999/01/02
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/01/02
- Re: lynx-dev mime types?, David Woolley, 1999/01/03
- Re: lynx-dev mime types? (patch!), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/01/04