Re: FTP ASCII/BINARY problem

David J Woolley wrote:
>
> >
> > If I download a binary file by ftp in netscape 4.5 under win95,
> > the file is loaded as ASCII (which is useless) when reading through
> > squid,
> > and BINARY (which is what I want) with direct internet connection.
> >
>
> They probably have different media type maps. You need to tell the
> squid server about the media type for the file extension in question
> by adding it to the mime.conf file.

And BTW, you can change the default for unknown types to be different too,
by editting the "default" line at the end of mime.conf. I change it from
text/plain to application/octet-stream for example.

Jifl

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