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Re: Lugnet dat-file browsing
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:37:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Michael Lachmann writes:
> Now you hit me a bit hard but ok ....
I apologize if my questions are of a dry nature -- we're talking technical
details, after all. :)
> When I load an mpd file for example which is stored on my web-page
> http://www.user.xpoint.at/m.lachmann/models/waggon.mpd ) then my viewer is
> started by IE and gets no seperate window but is shown in the explorer
> window itself .... fine
> When loading a dat from lugnet, it first asked me what to do with cgi files
> and I permanently configured my viewer for this. Now with every file I load
> from lugnet a seperate window is opened.
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> This thing works with every web-server but I feel you are right with the
> mime type ... but my program does not get any information about the mime
> type itself, so I believe it's something between the server and the browser
> causing this effect.
OK, here's what I see: The waggon.mpd model (above) is being served by your
server as MIME type
application/octet-stream
while the .dat models being served by lugnet.com are as MIME type
application/x-ldraw
In other words, it appeas that the higher-level logic in your browser which
launches your application is associated with the MIME type application/
octet-stream. To make your application launch with the official[1] type as
well, I believe all you need to do is create additional MIME associations in
your browser.
(BTW, a question for Steve/Jacob/etc.: lugnet.com currently serves MPD
content as MIME type application/x-ldraw as if it were a regular .dat file.
Is this technically correct since MPD content is a special case of .dat
content, or is this currently broken because tools actually expect the MIME
type application/x-multi-part-ldraw for MPD content?)
--Todd
[1] http://www.ldraw.org/memorial/archive/FAQ/#question-32
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