On Dec 21, 2004, at 8:08 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 07:41 -0800, Ron Hudson wrote:
>
>> OOh lookie here... I just fired up Microsoft Internet Explorer and
>> tried my site, it gets .dmg instead of .html !!!!!
>>
>> Looks like a bug report goes to Apple for Safari! Gah! I hate
>> Explorer!
>> I wonder if firefox gets it right...
>
> mime type bug?
>
> IE I believe doesn't follow the spec and treats the file extension as
> authorative over the mime type (good ol' MS), whereas other browsers do
> work to the spec and obey the mime type. So if the server's sending a
> mime type of html for that dmg file (because it's incorrectly
> configured) then it's going to cause strange problems at the client
> side.
>
Can I put something in the <a href..> tag to change this?
>
> Given the amount of pop-up ads, http redirects and other crud going on
> with angelfire I'd recommend you move your web content to a different
> provider though! Yuck :-(
I guess you get what you pay for... I don't have any money for hosting
"GPL and free as in beer too" software.
Angelfire sells advertising so they can give web-sites away free, Tripod
and any other free places probably do the same...
>
> Trying to download the file from the command line via wget gives a 404
> error along with "Cookie coming from www.angelfire.com attempted to set
> domain to angelfire.lycos.com".
>
Hmmm...
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
Received on Tue Dec 21 2004 - 10:35:45 GMT