Re: Curious ftp problem with squid 1.1.3

From: James R Grinter <jrg@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 22:33:44 +0000

On Tue 14 Jan, 1997, Tim Steele <tjfs@tadpole.co.uk> wrote:
>I vote for application/octet-stream. It fixes my problem.
>
>After all, if you don't know what it is, surely that's the safest bet?

it's not that simple (is it ever?). Consider the countless 'README' and
'README.1st' type files on ftp servers: I'd like to be presented with
the text of those in my browser, rather than having to save it
somewhere.

James.
Received on Tue Jan 14 1997 - 14:43:49 MST

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