Using Netscape on the Mac...

[Pim Blokland <nipp@plane.nl>]

Oh boy, is this newsgroup deteriorating. If someone does not 
specifically mention that a message is Apple II related, others 
immediately assume that it therefore is not!

So, here we go then. Read into this what you will.

Using Netscape on the Mac, I find that I cannot download .SHK files 
directly from my own web site. Even though I have told Netscape what to 
do with those files - "Save to disk", it still tries to display them in 
the browser window.
First I thought that it was my fault. After all, I am not very fluent 
with HTML yet, and I thought that I was doing something wrong with the 
link on the web page. On another web page I found a download link saying 
that it was an ftp link (as in HREF="ftp:file.name") but when I tried 
that, it had no effect on my site; the ftp: prefix is ignored.
Other experiments had no effect either; yet there are several web sites 
from which I can download .shk files without problems.
Eventually I found out that the problem is not on my side, but on the 
server's: apparently the server has to know which files are displayable 
and which are downloadable. And I got the advice to ask the helpdesk of 
my ISP to correct this; all I need to do is to tell them what the MIME 
type of .shk files is.

All this boils down to one simple question: what is the MIME type of 
.shk files? (Assuming all of the above makes sense, of course.)
-- 
Groetjes, Pim

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