Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text
Actually its with every single url out there. I have
2 boxex.
box1 lynx
http://www.linkrox.net/~god-emperor/ss-imdb.zip
outputs a cmd stating D)ownload C)ancel
box2 lynx
http://www.linkrox.net/~god-emperor/ss-imdb.zip
outputs "/tmp/8t73Df/L977-856TMP.zip" may be a binary
file. See it anyway?
thats it, no option to download or cancel.
both boxes are running ii lynx
2.8.4.1b-3.2 Text-mode WWW Browser
So i have no clue whats wrong with box2, on which
setting needs to be changed to make it act like box1
thanks
-paul
--- Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net>
wrote:
> * Paul (gabaod@yahoo.com) [030522 14:08]:
> > How do i get lynx to stop trying to view binary
> files
> > as text?
> >
> > i do a lynx http://www.blah.com/blah.zip and
> it
> > tries to view it as text, instead of prompting me
> on
> > if id like to download the file instead.
> >
> > Im wanting it to prompt for download when i
> specify a
> > direct url to a file, and also when selecting a
> link
> > it prompts to download.
>
> Does this happen every time, with every type of file
> you want to
> download, or only from a certain site?
>
> My first guess is that www.blah.com is broken, and
> sending blah.zip with
> a Content-Type of text/plain (or something other
> than application/zip,
> anyway). Unfortunately, probably the best you can
> do in this case is to
> mail the webmaster there and hope someone can fix
> the problem on their
> end.
>
> good times,
> Vineet
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