Re: MIME types

Andrew C. Esh ([email protected])
Mon, 1 May 1995 13:25:59 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 30 Apr 1995, Number 6 wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Apr 1995, John D. Charbonneau wrote:
>
> > Recently I asked what would be necessary for me to put VRML files on my WEB
> > site (at well.com). I got a lot of response, but it seems that the only way
> > to do this is for the WELL to modify their WWW server. I've asked them to do
> > so twice in the last couple of weeks, and have gotten no response.
>
>
> Sorry - correct me if I'm wrong (newbie on his soapbox), but can't you
> just treat the vrml .wel files AS files and transfer them by ftp, thereby
> no necessitating any server changes?

Yeah, I was thinking this too. Why not just put them in your public_html
directory and just make links to them? If the remote user's browser has
the mime-type set to take .wrl files and feed them to a VRML viewer
application, then they will see the 3-space when they click on the link.
This doesn't require any server changes.

Am I missing something, here?

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