Re: Lynx and .deb

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

In article <[🔎] 19991106120902.A4735@cistron.nl> you write:
>True, but not really relevant. The MIME type returned by the server
>determines if the client sees the deb as text or not. Contact the server
>admins and have them add entries to mime.types.

Only applies if http is used.

If some other protocol (eg ftp) is used (possibly via http proxy), the
server cannot return a MIME type. I don't know how good programs (eg
Lynx and Squid) are at determining the file type by the extension.

Unfortunately, the original poster failed to specify how the file is
downloaded.
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>