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Re: (ASCEND) Problems on 7.0b0?



At 11:06 AM 7/17/98 -0400, Jim Howard wrote:
>At 11:35 1998/07/17 +0000, Mike Hughes wrote:
>>Personally, I think we are back to the same problem which was seen 
>>with 6.1b2 - i.e. downloading these images over a web browser isn't 
>>good, because you seem to get ASCII or Binary transfers seemingly 
>>dependant on which type of browser you are using (I think we agreed 
>
>having someone rename all the files on the server 
>to add a ".bin" extension, or changing the file extension to mime type
>map that the server recognises to include ".m18,.m20,.m40,.m60" etc.,
>would also solve this because the server would then use
>mime type "application/octet-stream"

I don't think that we ought to expect everyone to start re-configuring
their browsers
to recognize octet-streams from all these strange extensions. I figure we
need to find a way to fix this from the server side....I'm not HTTP expert, so
I've given the "problem" over to those who are...

>>It would be much more preferable to have these on ftp, so that we can 
>>actually select binary mode when we download the images!

Maybe a possibility....use the same login/password....force the user to agree
to the BETA agreements....



Kevin Smith			Ascend Communications...
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