On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:07:16AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> Firstly, shift-left-click will always get you a Save dialogue.
Okay, that's good to know.
> Secondly, look at the file ~/.mailcap; this is a list of media types
> and handlers for each, and is what Netscape uses to drive the Helpers
> dialogue.
>
> You may, for interest, also wish to look at ~/.mime-types. Netscape edits
> this and uses it to guess types from file extensions for local (non-HTTP)
> content. If you're fetching from an FTP site, and _not_ using a proxy,
> the .mime.types file may well be being used, because FTP is untyped.
Those files (in my home directory and in /etc) are essentially the same.
> If you use a proxy at work and not at home (or vice versa) this may
> be the significant difference. There is some debate about what type to
> assign FTP-fetched data via a proxy; because the proxy _must_ give the
> data a type the proxy which does the actualy FTP fetch must do as your
> browser, and guess a type. Just as for local file content. Now, like
> your browser it will look up a .mime.types file (or equvalent table)
> based on extensions, but if there is no extension or the extension
> isn't in its list then it must punt, and typically chose either
> text/plain on the premise that must unrecognised things are text like
> README files, or go for application/octet-stream on the premise that
> the file is probably binary and in any case is best served "pure". As
> you may imagine, text/plain tends to be displayed by your browser and
> application/octet-stream always invokes a Save dialogue.
>
> So, what's your proxiness at work and at home?
On both machines I'm running junkbuster on the system itself. Pretty much
with the stock blockfile that comes with it...
The header of the file (application/octet-stream) probably doesn't come into
play because the link points directly to a *.rpm file.
The shift+left click will work for me, but I'm really curious why the
difference...
-Michael
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