EMAIL != FTP

Sat May 26 12:05:00 UTC 2001

Incorrect, IE:

Right click over the link, "Save Target as"

sure the browser wont display it correct but you can save it fine.

Steve

On Sat, 26 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

> 
> > From: Scott Francis [mailto:scott at virtualis.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:03 PM
> 
> > Oh give me a break - is there ANY modern browser that will 
> > not prompt you to
> > save the file if it does not recognize it as a displayable 
> > format? Your
> > reasoning is going downhill ...
> 
> Have you ever setup an Apache web server (or any other)? Create a random
> binary file and call it something.xyz (or any other extention not defined in
> your mime-type) and see if ANY browser will load it as something other than
> garbage.
> 
> 

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