Roeland, And how will an email attachment of that nature be opened ? If the file extension is unrecognized, the user receiving the attachment will also not be able to open it. It is your job as a web server admin to make sure that the proper mime types have been set up. As new file types creep up, you create new mime types. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> To: "'Scott Francis'" <scott@virtualis.com>; "Mitch Halmu" <mitch@netside.net> Cc: "John Fraizer" <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>; "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>; "'Steve Sobol'" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>; "Shawn McMahon" <smcmahon@eiv.com>; <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 3:34 AM Subject: RE: EMAIL != FTP
From: Scott Francis [mailto:scott@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
your mime-type) and see if ANY browser will load it as something other
in than
garbage.