> Because the mime decoding takes place at the server. This server is
> telling us the mime type is text/plain or text/html or something and we
> are dutifully sending that document to the external viewer which handles
> that type. The right solution is really to get the mime.types fixed on
> the server...
I still don't geddit. When I transfer a file by binary mode FTP, as far
as I am aware that file gets dumped wholesale, as-is, into a directory of
my choice. However, if the file extension is recognised by Netscape (as
.wrl for example), then it downloads the file and THEN spawns the
appropriate viewer. I don't have that much experience of sgis, but I
believe this to be the case with Windows Netscape. Please correct me if
I'm wrong.
BCnU
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