We just checked the mime.types file for the apache server
and the "application/mac-binhex40" is there...
-lile
(a webmaster@art.net)
> From lile Fri Mar 22 10:59:44 1996
> From: "DEXTER Scott (MSMail)" <SDexter@shl.com>
> To: "help@art.net" <help@art.net>, "'Mark Coniglio'" <troika@panix.com>
> Subject: RE: Of BinHex, Netscape, and Automatic Recognition
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:47:51 -0700
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> Lile - you might have to configure the Apache's mime-types.config file to
> send .hqx files in the right format (application/mac-binhex40).
>
> otherwise, the server has no clue how to send the file, and the client
> doesn't know how to view it (wrong mime header, ya know?)
>
> hope this helps-
> sgd
>
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> From: Mark Coniglio[SMTP:troika@panix.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 1996 9:27 AM
> To: help@art.net
> Subject: Of BinHex, Netscape, and Automatic Recognition
>
> Hello Artist Comrades!
>
> I am having a problem with getting Netscape to recognize BinHex (.hqx)
> files from www.art.net. (BinHex, for the non-Mac inclined, is a encoding
> scheme that allows you to repesent binary files in text only documents --
> similar to uuencode.)
>
> At sites other than Art on the Net, when I click on an .hqx file Netscape
> recogizes it as a BinHex file, and sends it off to StuffIt expander to be
> converted. When I try to download .hqx files from Art on the Net, Netscape
> just displays them as if they were text, apparently unaware that they are
> BinHex.
>
> As far as Netscape goes, I have the follow line in the helper application
> section:
>
> Mime Type Application Action Extensions
> application/mac-binhex40 -- StuffitExpander -- Launch -- hqx, .hqx
>
> so you would think that Netscape would see the hqx at the end and know what
> to do.
>
> Is there some kind of MIME encoding information that needs to be sent by
> the server to make this work? Am I doing something wrong when uploading the
> documents?
>
> Any ideas, thoughts, or help appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> P.S. If you would like to try, there is a very short .hqx file at
>
> http://www.art.net/~troika/a2d.sit.hqx
>
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