Re: netscape ftp vs http

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

Robert,

Thanks for your reply. What I'm really interested in is how to make
Netscape (and later on preferably Mozilla) choose between download
files to disk, i.e. by supplying a menu, or downloading the file to a
buffer by it's own. You don't always have access to pure ftp...

/Svante

Robert L. Yelvington writes:
 > log on directly to their ftp site using ftp in your browser...
 > 
 > ftp://ftp2.3ddownloads.com/pub/
 > 
 > robt
 > 
 > Svante Signell wrote:
 > > 
 > > What am I doing wrong trying to download files from
 > > eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using
 > > Netscape (4.76)?
 > > 
 > > You don't get the possibility to <shift><click> on the file, it just
 > > starts downloading to the Netscape buffer!! Not as expected. I'm
 > > moving to mozilla ASAP, but meanwhile, what to do?? Any settings to
 > > change? Maybe this is IE behavior copied to NS, but you should get a
 > > question, whether to download or to view. Is this unreasonable?
 > > 
 > > /Svante
 > > 
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