[crossfire] Re: Java Editor

[tchize]

Just configure your apache server to associated .jar files to file type 
application/octets-stream, this should force every browser to download

Le Mercredi 8 Juin 2005 09:40, ERACC a écrit :
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      Lalo Martins wrote:
     
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      > And so says ERACC on 06/08/2005 01:11 PM...
     
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      http://www.eracc.com/files/CFJavaEditor.jar.tar.gz
      
      
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      > Gene, I'm under the impression that a jar is a glorified zip file;
     
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      Basically, it is.
     
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      > is there any benefit in making a tar.gz of it?
     
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      Yes, for broken browsers (if used for DL) that will attempt to open
     
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      the file in a window because they have no clue what a .jar is. Most
     
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      browsers should know how to handle .tar.gz by now. I would just use
     
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      wget and not worry about the extension but I realize not everyone
     
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      does things the way I do.
     
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      Could also use .zip extension in place of .jar (I think, haven't
     
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      tried that so going on anecdotal mention) but that might be a wee bit
     
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      confusing to some who would DL and attempt to unzip it.
     
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      Gene