Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before
> > > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use
> > > > another version, which will download a file _unchanged_ if demanded.
>
> I have this problem with gz file when it's not tar.gz. Just now I did some
> tests and added a mime type to netscape
> preferences/navigator/applications:
>
> Description: Gzip archive file
> MIMIEType: application/x-gzip-compressed
> Suffixes: gz
> Handled By: Unknown:PromptUser
>
> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I have to add
> the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape dialog or rename after.
> Netscape seems to insist on stripping the extension.
>
> This is closer. Can anyone improve this?
yes.
but first: nice, no that´s not sufficient: _very_ nice.
in Netscape.ad comment out the following lines to
*encodingFilters: \
x-compress : : .Z : uncompress -c \n\
compress : : .Z : uncompress -c \n
! x-gzip : : .z,.gz : gzip -cdq \n\
! gzip : : .z,.gz : gzip -cdq \n
with that netscape finally behaves as it should. don´t forget, netscape
needs the link /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape pointing to
Netscape.ad. perhaps it is sufficient to copy these lines to
preferences.js.
as you can see above, your line ´Suffixes´ should be completed to
Suffixes: z,gz
there should also be another entry to handle the .Z-files properly. but
what about the appropriate MIMIEtTpe? i haven´t found the possible
values. could you please point me to a location, where this types are
listed?
hafi
ps:
there may be some curious people, which can profit from my researches so
far.
i had detected, that the problem wasn´t debian related and was willing
to post my question in an appropriate newsgroup. i had done the
following tests on my machine (all with communicator):
debian slink (glibc 2.0)
4.6, 4.61, 4.07 => fail
suse 5.3 (libc5)
4.5 => fail
win95
4.0? => success
