- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:32:40 +0100 (BST)
- To: Steffen.Brose@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Steffen Brose)
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org, Steffen.Brose@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de
> I've some problems with .dvi-files in Netscape: > If I send a request to get such a file via http then all is o.k., but if > I try to get the same file via file-URL then the result consits of some > peculiar characters. Later he askes: > Does a difference exist between the http and file (FTP) protocol for Netscape Netscape is just a browser. It doesn;t affect the protocols used, which are the sane for all browsers. But yes, there is a difference between HTTP and FTP; FTP does not provide a MIME type. So the client has to guess from the filename. > This's my mailcap entry: > application/xdvi; xdisplaygizmo xdvi %s That should be application/x-dvi not /xdvi Fine, but there is no MIME type being sent so you need a .mime.types file to tell the client how to guess MIME types from filenames. Create one containing this line: application/x-dvi dvi -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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