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Re: LYNX-DEV Encoding: x-gzip
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Encoding: x-gzip |
Date: |
Mon, 9 Dec 1996 09:40:08 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Kapil H. Paranjape wrote:
> I should have been more careful is writing my query.
>
> Behaviour of Lynx (2.6) File type
>
> Displays something.html (of course!)
> Displays something.html.gz
> Spawns external viewer something.xbm
Is this also via HTTP, have you checked the headers for this case also,
and is the content-type also image/x-xbitmap?
> Gives option of download something.xbm.gz
>
> What I would like is that the last *also* Spawn an external viewer. I
Since you are saying "spawn" instead of "fork"... you are ny by any
chance using VMS, are you? :)
That reminds me that you haven't told us anything about your system,
or even whether you are running Lynx under X.
> could check that the HTTP/1.0 response from the server is
>
> Content-Encoding: x-gzip
> Content-Type: image/x-xbitmap
>
> From the fact that something.xbm works I assume that the .xbm SUFFIX
> is ok as well as the VIEWER for image/x-xbitmap.
Don't assume too much...
If your third case, which you label something.xbm, refers to a file
retrieved via HTTP, then the fact that "something.xbm works" doesn't
say anything about whether "the .xbm SUFFIX is ok". That URL could
just as well be called http://host.somewhere/blah/blah/xyz.html
and *still* point to a file of type image/x-xbitmap. Only the
headers matter.
> So what is wrong?
Henry replied to you:
>> Set SUFFIX and VIEWER in lynx.cfg, or edit .mime.types and .mailcap.
Have you actually tried it?
If you still don't get the expected result, lynx -trace might give
some hints.
Klaus
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