On 23-Nov-05 Joe Button wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:46:46 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
I was just trying to download a file with Firefox (Twiki.tgz from www.twiki.org) and couldn't.
There isn't a link to a file called that on that page, so I'm not really sure what you're on about. The downloads seemed to work OK in firefox here though.
Well, it's not that difficult to find from that page! (In extremis, use the Search facility for "TWiki.tgz"). You'll find one at:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/viewfile/Plugins/TWiki?rev=1.1&filename=TWiki.t...
I've not had problames of the kind described with the firefox-1.0.4 which is the latest I upgraded to (a couple of months ago). Ever! I have *always* been informed what kind of file I'm clicking on, and asked what I want to do with it.
Well, not until just now, anyway -- I clicked on the above URL to see what would happen, and just got the screenful of binary garbage that Chris describes.
So there's something wrong with that URL (only I'm not expert enough to suss out what it might be).
I've not tries that same URL woth other browsers, so cannot comment on whether it's a firefox thing.
Problems such as the one you describe can be caused by the server sending the wrong content-type header. IE tends to ignore it and use the file extension to decide what to do.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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