Automatically "Save As" custom extension

[wgcs]

My application uses proprietary data files, with ".plg" as an extension.

I wan't to post these on my web server for download through HTTP.
I though all I had to do was add an .htaccess file with one or both of these lines in it:

AddType     application/octet-stream .plg
AddEncoding application/octet-stream .plg

However, when viewing the URL in IE6, IE just views it as a text.

When viewing the URL in Mozilla 1.4, it opens a download dialog saying: The file "myfile.plg" is of type application/octet-stream (HTML Document), ....
And it offers to "open it with the default application (htmlfile)" or "Save it to disk".

Why do IE and Mozilla still think the file, named myfile.plg and with "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" and "Content-Encoding: applicaiton/octet-stream" in the HTTP headers is an HTML file?? How can I get both Mozilla and IE to just want to "Save As"?

- Bill

Get the best answers to your questions -- See FAQ481-4875.

 

[wgcs]

Ok, I've found a fairly good explanation about why I'm having this problem:

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/content-type.html

But I haven't found any solution... Is there a way to specify the "Content-Disposition" header for a specific file extension using the apache .htaccess file?

- Bill

Get the best answers to your questions -- See FAQ481-4875.

 

[wgcs]

I found a registry entry at classes\.plg with a value "Content Type" = htmlfile

This is what IE was using to override everything coming from the server, and always viewing the file. I guess I'll just have to correct this registry issue within my application.

- Bill

Get the best answers to your questions -- See FAQ481-4875.