HTML Question -- Binary Downloads

[Gregory Nowak]

I've always thought it was the file extention like iso, zip, gz, exe, com and so on.
But, I guess not.
Greg


On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:42:51AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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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