From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jonathan Pryor" To: Subject: Re: Compiled executable differences between 9x and NT Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <0f7901be6cc2$8691f440$e63d2509@jonpryor.raleigh.ibm.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00384.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.WJi_6nbgwVQH7WUzyBbutzChPzz3p5PLP0CXI9QBpoY@z> I hadn't known about the `.htaccess' file. Thank you for the suggestion. "Correct" headers are now being generated for the .tgz file (at least according to DJ's HTTP Header Viewer). Hopefully this should fix any download problems... - Jon Glenn Spell wrote: >[This message is off topic but I believe it is of interest.] > >Jonathan Pryor wrote: >> I suppose I wasn't too clear in my original message. >> It was the *application* that was crashing; not Windows. > >I just wanted to make sure you know what I was seeing. > >> As for the download issue... I hadn't run into that before. >> Is "application/zip" close-enough for a tarball? e.g. >> >> source tarball > >Well, I tried again and Netscape 4.05 still corrupts the file on >download. I assume the problem is still the headers generated >by your webserver. > >> (I didn't see anything referencing "tar" in the IANA database, >> but I saw "application/zip", which seems to fit...) > >I saw that there also. Oddly, either Netscape or WinZip set me >up in Netscape with "application/x-zip-compressed .ZIP". I >changed it to "application/zip" before I tried the download. > >> Hopefully, this should fix the mime type problem -- if you're >> accessing from an html page, anyway. I'm not sure how to set >> the mime-type on a file when _directly_ accessing the file, >> instead of through an href. Thoughts? > >I believe the following method will work regardless of how the >file is accessed. Since you're using Apache on FreeBSD, just >make a file named ".htaccess" in that directory with the >following content: > >AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz >AddType application/x-tar .tar > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com