From: lgdutra@originet.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_Faria_Corcete_Dutra?=) Subject: Re: Apologies 11 Mar 1998 23:21:57 -0800 Message-ID: <00b601bd4cdd$21a61da0$fa09d126.cygnus.gnu-win32@alpha.br.lge.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "Michael Traffanstead" Cc: "gnuwin32" >From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra >To: webmaster@tiac.net >Cc: gnuwin32 >Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 3:45 AM > > >>>Sorry about this. My ISP is claiming that I shouldn't be using .gz >>>formats on my files but should be using some standard format like >>>.zip. Files ending in .gz are misidentified by their HTTP server. >>> >>>I will probably do that soon, but in the mean time, I'm trying various >>>routes to see if they will fix the problem. >>> >>>If anyone would like to offer suggestions to the webmaster@tiac.net on >>>how to solve this problem, feel free. >> >> Please add: >>application/x-gzip gz >> >> to your mime types file (usually /etc/http/mime.types). >> >> If you don't know how to do it, you shouldn't be in the business!! >>It's a shame to have suggested to a customer he should change his files >>to a inferior format (less portable, less compression, takes longer to >>compress) instead of correctly configuring your httpd. "gz" is a >>standard on Internet, should be accepted by any site, and is the better >>compressor around -- that is, until we get bzip to be a standard! > > >Before you start questioning peoples' calling in life, you might want to >consider >that gz/tgz are also being used for vrml pages and that's why they are not >handled properly on some browsers ( ie and mozilla both ship with gz defined >as a binary file ). > >traff > > Yes, probably you're right... sorry... I shouldn't be harsh. I'm cc-ing this because where I come from a public offence commands a public apology. Having apologized, we're talking servers, not browsers... all right? Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra lgdutra@originet.com.br Assistente de Informática http://www.lge.com.br./ LG Electronics da Amazônia Ltda fone +55 11 820 25 99 r 151 R do Rocio, 430 - 1º andar - Vila Olímpia fax +55 11 829 54 57 04552-906 - São Paulo, SP Soli Deo Gloria! BRASIL - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".