Subject: Re: serving up as text?

From: [email-masked] (Dan Krause)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 03:35:50 -0600

Read the file VIRTUAL.FTP.SUPPORT in the primary directory of the wu-ftpd
tree, it has some clues...

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From: "Marina Wefer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:52:22 +0200

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?
> 
Check your browser - configuration, had the same problem with wu_ftpd 
on a linux-machine (distribution S.u.S.E).
Try:
application/octet-stream exe,bin (as file-extension) and save as 
action
in the browser-conf.
If it won't work, add connection portnumber (21?) for example:
<A HREF="ftp://bla.bla.bla.bla:21/pub/bla.exe">
Marina

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Marina Wefer
Klinikum der Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
Institut fuer Med. Informatik
Bunsenstr. 3, 35037 Marburg
Tel. 06421/28-6393, email: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 96 10:19:25 PST

Yeah, when you use the http to down load a file it usually has a mime 
     type defined that converts it to the octet-stream since your ftp 
     doesn't do that you have to rely on the fact that the brower is 
     configured propery.  I know a few releases of netscape did not have 
     .exe or .bin set to the mime type of octet stream
     
     I am going to try the other solution to see if that helps.
     
     Milo

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Subject: Re: serving up as text?
Author:  [email-masked] at ww-internet
Date:    4/1/96 2:08 AM

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Marina Wefer