[crossfire] Re: Java Editor

[ERACC]

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 02:57 am
tchize wrote:

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      Le Mercredi 8 Juin 2005 09:40, ERACC a écrit :
     
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      > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 01:02 am
     
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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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      > > 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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      Just configure your apache server to associated .jar files to file type 
     
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      application/octets-stream, this should force every browser to download
     
     
I would do that, if it were my server. I am using a web host so I can
get the benefits of their larger bandwidth. But, using a web host
means I don't have access to the apache config files. I know I could
use .htaccess for odd mime types but I also don't like messing with
my site more than necessary. I really just don't want to do it. :-)

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