HTML Question -- Binary Downloads

[David Poehlman]

Hi there janina!
I might be able to help, but first, have you found any pages that
proffer this with the the extention you are trying to code for?  It
seems that your lynx is seeing .iso as some sort of readable text.  This
may be changeable on your end but I wouldn't begin to know how to do it.
I know for instance, with ie, .pdf, .txt, .doc and many others act this
way unless you jump through hoops to prevent it.  The most relyable way
I have found to provide file transferrability is to make zip or exe the
extention even if it is not really the extention and depending on how
the server is configured, you may have to use ftp:// in the hreff.

I hope this helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <ma-linux at tux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: HTML Question -- Binary Downloads


Can someone tell me what determines whether a hyperlinked file will be
treated as a text page to be retrieved and rendered as opposed to a
binary
file to be downloaded and saved?

I'm writing a HOWTO and want to point to downloadable image files with
hyperlinks, but my links aren't working correctly. I've tried both
http://
and ftp:// addressing, but always get the same result--my iso images are
grabbed as though they were text. What I'm wanting is the lynx screen
that
says "Download or Cancel."

Is this a permissions issue? A server-side Apache configuration issue?
I'm
stumped.


All help most gratefully appreciated.


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