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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved...
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:52:45
Message-Id: 20110613065122.GH3061@solfire
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved... by Hartmut Figge
1 Hartmut Figge <h.figge@×××.de> [11-06-13 07:32]:
2 > meino.cramer@×××.de:
3 >
4 > > there is one feature of forefox, which bugs me:
5 > > On the same site (www.blenderswap.com) I click
6 > > to files to download. One is a *.blend, the
7 > > other one is a *.rar.
8 > > When I click the *.blend, the file gets downloaded
9 > > and stored on my hd at once -> bad!
10 > > When I click the *.rar, the file gets NOT downloaded
11 > > at once and instead I am offered a dialog, which
12 > > asks what to do.
13 > >
14 > > I looked into Preferences->Application, which lists
15 > > filetypes and the according action and DONT find
16 > > an entry for *.blend files.
17 >
18 > What happens depends on the Content-Type with which the server delivers
19 > the file. Here is an example.
20 >
21 > http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/
22 >
23 > Both files are identical text files, but hm.blend1 comes with text/plain
24 > and hm.blend2 comes with text/hafi. The last is unknown *g*, so it will
25 > be asked what to do. text/plain is well known and the browser will
26 > display its content.
27 >
28 > > Where can I change the action selected by Firefox
29 > > which gets executed for a certain filetype else?
30 >
31 > Look at the Content-Type of your *.blend. One way to do this is with
32 > HEAD which is part of libwww-perl.
33 >
34 > hafi@i5 ~ $ HEAD http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/hm.blend2
35 > 200 OK
36 > Connection: close
37 > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT
38 > Accept-Ranges: bytes
39 > ETag: "942355-b-4a590cf7e03b1"
40 > Server: Apache
41 > Content-Length: 11
42 > Content-Type: text/hafi
43 > Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:01:21 GMT
44 > Client-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT
45 > Client-Peer: 85.13.136.212:80
46 > Client-Response-Num: 1
47 >
48 > Hartmut
49 > --
50 > Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/
51 > Von Usern fuer User :-)
52 >
53 >
54
55 Hi Hartmut,
56
57 Oh, yeah! GREAT! I didn't know of "HEAD" at all - this nice tool fixes
58 the problem at once! Great help, thank you very much ! :)))
59
60 Have a nice "Pfingstmontag" :)
61
62 Best regards,
63 mcc

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved... Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>