Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:55:46 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: downloading text files from apache Message-ID: <40460E12.3020108@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEOFFNAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEOFFNAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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fbsd_user wrote: >I got no info found for man mime.types > > No, my fingers were ahead of my brain... mime.types(5) is put there by cups and refers to its own mime.types file. >Are you saying that if I delete the statement for .txt out of the >/usr/local/etc/apache/mime.types file that apache will >download .txt files? > > I'm not advocating that. I'm advocating that you understand what this will do and why before thinking of doing it, and that in the meantime you compress any text files you want to make available for download, so they download as .zip, .gz or whatever. Apache's documentation says of the mime.types file: This file sets the default list of mappings from filename extensions to content types; changing this file is not recommended. (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#typesconfig) Note there is an entry for zip files in mime.types with an extension, and one for gzipped files without an extension. Both download as you want on your computer but will behave slightly differently on some other machines. The server and browser are interacting here. It's worth learning about it properly before editing a configuration file. >Is there some statement I can add to httpd.conf to over ride >the mime.types file? > > There's an AddType statement for adding new mime types. That won't help you here, though. Bear in mind that when a browser displays a text file, it _has_ downloaded it. If the viewer wants to save it, they can. It's displayed to be helpful. Text files can be read and displayed by browsers. Changing this will change it everywhere, with everything the server does. Are you sure that's what you want? PWR.
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