Re: [cobalt-users] *.Zip and *.swf do not display correctly

["Larry E. Smith" <lesmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kody,

  Negative; the browser decides whether or not it "understands" a
  particular type of file (extension), but the server decides
  based on the mime.types file how to "present" the file to the
  browser.

  For example, if you change "pdf" to be text/html, the server
  will "hand" it to the browser as if it were text and the
  browser will probably display "garbage" on the screen (what
  John is seeing with swf/zip right now).  The browser simply
  "accepts" the "application type" parameter from the server and
  uses that to decide "what" to do...

Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIs.NET
sysad@xxxxxxxxx

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:18:36AM -0600, Kody Hagen wrote:
> Isn't that controlled by the browser, how it handles certain kind of files
> not the server?
> 
> 
> --
> Kody
> 
> on 10/24/01 7:45 AM, Support at Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I think that there may be a simple solutions to this problem. . .
> > 
> > Websites on our server cannot simply link to a *.zip file or a *.swf file.  It
> > shows garbage when it should ask you to download the *.zip or run the *.swf
> > files.  How do we fix this problem?
> > 
> > --
> > John D. Gorena
> > 
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