Re: confused about web servers
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:53:13 -0500, I wrote:
> Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the
> movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy
> the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or
> display it as text.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:16:53 +0000, Steve Kemp replied:
> Probably the webserver didn't send an appropriate Content-type for
> the .wmv file - which meant it was served as a random binary, rather
> than playing.
and on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:21:01 -0500, Allan Wind replied:
> The web servers probably returned different content types, and the
> browser behaves differently based on that.
Obviously, I hadn't understood how that works. Thanks.
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