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Re: ftp type handler?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 24 01:28:09 1998

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 01:25:20 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Danny Rice wrote:

> Is there a way to configure an ftp server to explicitely tell a web
> browser that certain suffixes should be in a certain mime type?  For
> example, I would like netscape to prompt for a file name when
> downloading mp3's from my ftp site, even when the netscape user
> doesn't have the mp3 extension in their mime mappings.  I can't seem
> to find it in the man pages.  Is there an ftp howto somewhere or other
> useful docs?

In Netscape, hold the right mouse button on the link.
Select "save link as".  It prompts for a filename to save

the file in.--

Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2




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