[37995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EMAIL != FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wojtek Zlobicki)
Sat May 26 13:52:16 2001
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From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz@idirect.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:50:01 -0400
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Roeland,
And how will an email attachment of that nature be opened ? If the file
extension is unrecognized, the user receiving the attachment will also not
be able to open it. It is your job as a web server admin to make sure that
the proper mime types have been set up. As new file types creep up, you
create new mime types.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Scott Francis'" <scott@virtualis.com>; "Mitch Halmu"
<mitch@netside.net>
Cc: "John Fraizer" <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>; "Roeland Meyer"
<rmeyer@mhsc.com>; "'Steve Sobol'" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>;
"Shawn McMahon" <smcmahon@eiv.com>; <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 3:34 AM
Subject: RE: EMAIL != FTP
>
> > 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.
