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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:28:48 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Is this an MS-IE ONLY thing ?

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In <3FB5464F.1090300@markoverholser.com>, on 11/14/03
at 01:16 PM, "Mark D. Overholser" said:

>My total understanding is limited, but when a WWW server is set up, the
>various files it "serves" are identified with a file type,

What you are referring to is the Content-type.

>I guess that MIME
>type and File Type are two different things,

No, it's the same stuff and governed by the same RFCs.

>In your Browser window, click on the Menu Item "Edit", then select at
>the bottom of the Pop-Up Menu, "Preferences".

Before doing any of this, you need to know what type you need to
configure. Use View -> Page Info for this.

>FWIIW, The Simtel site does not seem to send a
>"application/x-rar-compressed" file type, with the RAR File you pointed
>out. If you could identify what File Type is being sent, it might be
>for HTM or HTML,

It's not. It's worse than that. See my other reply. :-)

>which means that it would be just about impossible to
>get Simtel's File Download redirection to default to DownLoad.

That's really not a problem. The full URL is available in the location
bar, so you can always do a File -> Save Page As after the page renders.

Regards,

Steven

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