Subject: Re: Anonymous passwords

From: [email-masked] (Robert Chea)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:02:48 -0700

>You could just as easily do it the other way -- route all your file downloads
>through an HTTP server.  I personally have my system set up so that the FTP
>drive is mounted in to the web space so that useres can access it either way.
>I figure it is more efficient if the guy is already on the web server to pull
>the files from the web server rather than opening up a new FTP connection.
>

Evan,

How do you allow everything to be downloaded through HTTP?  When I upload a
binary like a photoshop file and then I make an HTTP reference to it, I
just get gibberish when I click on the link.  How do I make it
automatically download to a file (like FTP does) ?  If I use an ending like
.hqx or .zip, it will work, but is there a better way to do this so that
people who haven't mapped these suffixes on their browsers can still
download the file?

Robert Chea

>Evan
>--
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Robert S. Chea
Director of Information Systems
Cedro Group Inc.

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From: Evan Champion <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 22:08:03 -0400

> people who haven't mapped these suffixes on their browsers can still

If that file has a MIME type then the default behaviour for that type
will be used; otherwise the file will just be viewed.  You can get around
this in Netscape by clicking the right mouse button on what you want to
download and hit "Save as...".

Evan

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From: Mitch Wright <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:30:52 -0700

/* Robert Chea [[email-masked]] writes: */

>How do you allow everything to be downloaded through HTTP?  
>
Thats a function of your browser in the general sense since you can just
tell it to download instead of get & interpret.  With Netscape you hold
the shift key down while following the link.

Apache (http://www.apache.org/) version 1.1 is addressing these issues
I believe.  They are  certainly addressing the "anonymous http" issue.

-- 
do svidaniya,

  ~mitch

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From: Kent Landfield <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 96 21:59:21 CDT

This line of conversation has gone far beyond the charter of this list.  It 
is time that it is taken to private mail or some other more appropriate list.

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