Re: [WinMac] Binary downloads

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:48:50 -0400

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>I cannot get Netscape Navigator 4.07 to properly address any program to
>automatically open these files after downloading.
>
That's strange since Netscape 4.0 and later ships with StuffIt Expander
and is pre-configured to do the right thing with MacBinary files (ie. pass
them off to Expander). Why not simply reset your defaults?

>Maybe I have the wrong MIME type. It should be x-binary or x-macbinary,
>correct?
>
It's x-macbinary. But that also assumes that the web server on the
other side is setting the type properly, since that's determined inside the
HTTP header.

LDR

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