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[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Rashkae wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Broughton:
>>>
>>>> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>>>>> Nothing you do on your local machine will change the behaviour of the
>>>>>> server for www.xplanner.org.
>>>> Nothing?  I find that really hard to believe, though I admit I'm having
>>>> some trouble myself...
>>> I'm talking about the server's behaviour itself, not about circumventing
>>> the effects this behaviour (like using a proxy that changes the
>>> Content-Type header or whatever).
>>> If you can come up with a generally applicable way how I, just by
>>> fiddling around with my local machine, can manipulate other people's
>>> servers, please tell me. I'd be very interested.
>> But you shouldn't need to manipulate anybody else's server - your browser
>> should be capable of taking an "application/x-httpd-php" content type
>> (or "useless/garbage") and handling it the same way it handles "text/html".
> 
> Eh, no, not at all.  this is the way IE generally works.  If there is a
> file name in the URL, IE will use the extension to figure out the file
> type and open with the appropriate application.
> 
> All other browsers, Firefox, Safari, (I don't know about Opera) always
> trust the mime type header.  If it's "useless garbage" the stream gets
> treated, for all intents and purposes, the same as "binary/application
> octec-stream"  (paraphrasing from memory, so probably not exactly right)
> 
> This will cause some compatibility issues with misconfigured servers,
> but otherwise is considered the 'right' way to go.
> 
> Usually, the problems are exactly opposite.  It's a great irony of the
> Universe that Apache installs with mime 'magic' detection enabled by
> default.  This will often cause files that are supposed to be binary to
> be detected as text and Firefox always opens them in the browser.  The
> only way around it is to right click the link to Save target, whereas MS
> IE saves the file to disk the way it was intended to do.
> 

The elinks gives you a nice explanation and presents you with several 
possibilities.

The lynx just gives you a Save or Cancel option

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