HTML Question -- Binary Downloads

[Janina Sajka]

John: Yes, I know this, but this is for a public page, and I don't want to 
require users to have to know this. Especially, since there's no need for 
this to happen.
 On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, John Covici wrote:

> 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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org