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Ding! (Insert light bulb here)
Oooooohh! Thanks! I appreciate it, now I'll setup marsbase.com
I'm keeping the survey though. 8)
Ben
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Ben Vaughan
ben@marsbase.com
http://www.marsbase.com
"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:FrIt4K.289@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.publish, Ben Vaughan writes:
> > Quite possibly I don't have a clue what I'm doing.
> > The mime type you listed and that are listed in the FAQ have the • extension:
> > .dat
> > and an application type:
> > application/x-ldlite
> > application/x-ldraw
> > If it doesn't matter, why specify then?
>
> The application matters to the user/browser, but not the server. The
> application type tells the browser what kind of app to launch. This • allows a
> greater flexability for the end-user.
>
> See, from the server end, an application type doesn't map directly to an
> application; e.g. "application/x-ldraw" doesn't necessarily mean "use
> LDRAW.EXE". You (on the server end) simply map a file extension with an
> application type; the user at the browser end does the mapping between the
> application type and the application.
>
> For example, someone using a Win32 browser may map MLCAD.EXE to both
> application/x-ldraw and application/x-multi-part-ldraw -- but someone on a
> linux browser might map /usr/local/bin/ldglite to them instead. Or these
> folks might map different applications to each type; e.g. mapping
> application/x-ldraw to LDLITE, and application/x-multi-part-ldraw to a • script
> which calls SPLITMPD.EXE and then launches LEDIT.EXE. And so on.
>
> I think some of the confusion might have come from the mime-type
> application/x-ldlite. I'm not entirely sure where that one came from; I • have
> never used it on either the server or browser end, myself.
>
> Anyway, here's part of my .htaccess (Apache server) file:
>
> AddType text/plain .man
> AddType text/plain .pl
> AddType text/plain .csv
> AddType application/x-ldraw .dat
> AddType application/x-multi-part-ldraw .mpd
>
> I map text/plain to extensions .man , .pl , and .csv ; application/x-ldraw • to
> .dat ; and application/x-multi-part-ldraw to .mpd . When the Web server
> fetches a .man file, it tells the browser it's a text/plain. When the • server
> fetches a .dat file, it tells the browser it's an application/x-ldraw. • etc.
> The browser then decided which app to use for the application type.
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
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