From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 13:22:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05137 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05124 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA05889; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:14:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602272114.OAA05889@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Sending an exe or zip via HTML To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:14:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: dale2@fifth-avenue.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Feb 27, 96 10:04:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Fri, 24 Mar 1995, Dale wrote: > > > Does anyone know why when I code an HTML A REF to allow a user to > > download a file (like an exe or a zip) only the code shows up on the > > screen rather than the usual Netscape (Save To DIsk) dialogue box? > > > > Does this have something to do with the file's mode or ownership? > > No, it has to do with your http server configuration. What server are you > using? Or his client configuration for the file type. Default file type is "display to screen as text". It's only files for which the default file type is unknown (for an ftp:// URL) or for which they are known, but the application does not exist (http:// URL) that will automatically get the download. Or if you configure the default action to download on the browser (I assume he is using the Netscape browser from his original message). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.