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

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Kody Hagen wrote:

> Isn't that controlled by the browser, how it handles certain kind of files
> not the server?

nope, the server tells the browser what 'kind' of file it's getting, the
browser then decides what it for for those 'types' of files...
declaring files as untyped binary files tells the browser basiclly that
it's a kind of file it can't do anything with (eg can't display, parse,
feed to another application etc) so the browser offers to download it,

cobalt's default server config sends mime types of 'text' for unknown
things, and browsers think they know what to do with text files, they try
to display them ;0

gsh