RE: EMAIL != FTP

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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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Incorrect, IE:

Right click over the link, "Save Target as"

sure the browser wont display it correct but you can save it fine.

Steve

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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.