Subject: Re: serving up as text?

From: "Randy A. Katz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:54:58 -0800

Fundamental wrote:
> 
> i have wu-ftpd installed on a debian linux machine, and it works quite
> fine.  Now i thought i would have our web page as a front-end for the
> anonymous wu-ftp site, i have a html link to the ftp server as such
> <A HREF="ftp://electric.rain.aic.net.au/pub/file1.exe"> ... it connects
> fine, but serves up the files as asci ... hmm? any ideas?
> 
> tahnx
> 
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> <Ho-Ho>
> INTERCHANGE
> The sea: a silver flash without a sound;
> But a dry surf of leaves along the ground.
> ////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\
> The Australian Internet Company \\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\ISP Par Exceliance

Your thing seems to work fine, do you know how to do virtual ftp sites with wu-ftpd?

I already have 20 IP addresses resolving on the same host machine...

Thanx,
RAK

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From: "Randy A. Katz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:45:00 -0800

> fine, but serves up the files as asci ... hmm? any ideas?

I went in from my browser (netscape) with 
ftp://electric.rain.aic.net.au/pub and it gave the standard look I see 
with all ftp listings under a browser so I imagine <A 
HREF="ftp://electric.rain.aic.net.au/pub"> would work as well...

RAK

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From: "Randy A. Katz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:52:27 -0800

> fine, but serves up the files as asci ... hmm? any ideas?

I tested this little html file:

<A HREF="ftp://electric.rain.aic.net.au/pub/win95/cuteftp32.zip">Cute 
FTP 32 bit</A>

and it works just fine, prompts to save the file...
Thanx,
RAK
Cute FTP 32 bit

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From: Andrew Bennett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:29:33 -0800 (PST)

> fine, but serves up the files as asci ... hmm? any ideas?

If you wanna have fun, change the ftp:// link to a http:// link, and
forget ftp altogether.

Although you may have reasons for using ftp:// URL's over http:// URL's
(logging?), any decent web server should be able to suffice in lieu of
anonymous ftp transfers.

Most large ftp sites, oak.oakland.edu, www.winsite.com, etc use http://
links almost exclusively.

My $.02

Andrew
-- 

  Andrew Bennett
  [email-masked], [email-masked]
  http://taz.hyperreal.com/~abennett/

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From: [email-masked] (Mikiel Mifsud)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 20:04:54 +1000 (EST)

> and it works just fine, prompts to save the file...

your browser must be configured for .zip files, but i would like to do it 
so no  matter if someones browser isnt configured correctly, it still 
serves it up as binary/octet-stream:)