HTML Question -- Binary Downloads

[John Covici]

As far as I know, if you hit d on the link it will download --
otherwise its determined by a combination of your mailcap file and the
/etc/mime.types and /etc/mime.magic files.  If it thinks its
text/plain it will try to display it -- sometimes with weird results.

on Tue, 1 Jan 2002 11:42:51 -0500 (EST) Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net> 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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