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Re: .dvi-files and Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilley)
Fri Sep 22 12:34:17 1995
From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
To: Steffen.Brose@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Steffen Brose)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:32:40 +0100 (BST)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, Steffen.Brose@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950922172955.2773D-100000@egon.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> from "Steffen Brose" at Sep 22, 95 05:35:27 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> I've some problems with .dvi-files in Netscape:
> If I send a request to get such a file via http then all is o.k., but if
> I try to get the same file via file-URL then the result consits of some
> peculiar characters.
Later he askes:
> Does a difference exist between the http and file (FTP) protocol
for Netscape
Netscape is just a browser. It doesn;t affect the protocols used, which
are the sane for all browsers.
But yes, there is a difference between HTTP and FTP; FTP does not provide
a MIME type. So the client has to guess from the filename.
> This's my mailcap entry:
> application/xdvi; xdisplaygizmo xdvi %s
That should be application/x-dvi not /xdvi
Fine, but there is no MIME type being sent so you need a .mime.types
file to tell the client how to guess MIME types from filenames. Create
one containing this line:
application/x-dvi dvi
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