Mime Types

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      Subject: Re: correct mime type
         Date: 09 Mar 2001 13:41:25 GMT
         From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@lnd.spam.not.welcome.net>
 Organization: Concentric Internet Services
   Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
   References: 1

 From: "Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at>
 Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:41 AM
 > I have problems with downloading binary tgz files from my website
 > (uses Apache) by using Netscape 4.x as client.
 >
 > Netscape shows these files as text (a mess), while I would like
 > to configure Apache/Netscape/Windows (whoever is responsible) to
 > show a "save as" Dialog.

 First, you have not set the mime type correctly, which should be
 application/octet-stream if it is binary data you have no clue about.
 Second, there is _NO_ way to force a user to get a save-as dialog box,
 althought most browsers should present it for this media type. 

 > BTW IE works correctly, independent from what mime type I
 > configure.

 IE NEVER works correctly with mime types.  It goes to the trouble of filling the
 registry keys of the extentions with their mime types, yet never bothers testing them.
 It checks the filename extention.  It's totally useless and non-compliant behavior.
 Try saving and serving an html file as foo.txt.  You will get a text/plain file.
 So WTF does IE display?  A friggin marked up web page, not text/plain, although you
 just TOLD it that it was plain and it MUST IGNORE all contents.

 > The apache FAQ recommends to "configure the correct mime type".
 > But what is this for tgz?

 It's a application/x-gzip encoded application/x-tar file.  If you had named it  .tar.gz,
 the default mime types would have handled it.

 > Is there a complete list of recommended mime types?

  http://www.iana.org/numbers.htm

 See the apache/conf/mime.types file, and be familiar with the files you serve.

 Bill

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