[37973] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: EMAIL != FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sat May 26 08:18:10 2001
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:05:00 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: 'Scott Francis' <scott@virtualis.com>,
Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>,
John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>,
'Steve Sobol' <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>,
Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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Incorrect, IE:
Right click over the link, "Save Target as"
sure the browser wont display it correct but you can save it fine.
Steve
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>
> > From: Scott Francis [mailto:scott@virtualis.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:03 PM
>
> > Oh give me a break - is there ANY modern browser that will
> > not prompt you to
> > save the file if it does not recognize it as a displayable
> > format? Your
> > reasoning is going downhill ...
>
> Have you ever setup an Apache web server (or any other)? Create a random
> binary file and call it something.xyz (or any other extention not defined in
> your mime-type) and see if ANY browser will load it as something other than
> garbage.
>
>
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Stephen J. Wilcox
IP Services Manager, Opal Telecom
http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/
Tel: 0161 222 2000
Fax: 0161 222 2008
