[8602] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: File Types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Fri Jul 14 17:08:04 1995
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 13:19:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
To: Eric Hausgaard <eric@unix2.nysed.gov>
Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www19.w3.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PCW.3.91.950714085949.9071B-100000@dos482.nysed.gov>
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On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Eric Hausgaard wrote:
> How can I make a file forced to donload instead of viewing it.
>
> For example, If I had a WordPerfect 5.1 file and I put it on the Web. I
> want it downloaded instead of viewed so that the client won't see the
> funky graphic characters that WP puts in their documents. I want it
> (optionally) to be saved to my disk (DL) just by clicking on it (like
> *.ZIP files).
I think what you really want to do on the server side is make sure the
wordperfect files have a MIME type like
application/x-wordperfect
or something like that (anyone?) Most servers let you customize this
Content-type based on filename extensions. This will allow those who
have Wordperfect and their web browser configured correctly to have the
web browser immediately call up the application, and the others will br
prompted to save it. HTML browsers will (should!) only try and render
data with a Content-type of text/html or text/plain.
Brian
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