Very Computer

Hello,everybody.

This is my problem, any help greatly appreciated:

I want to serve files directly through my webserver, and I want them to go
out with a type  specification sucht that the browser will directly
try to save them on disk (rather then looking for helpers apps or somesuch).

I know that application/octet-stream works like this.

So I have added the suffixes I want to handle that way to my mime.types

(E.g: application/octet-stream       bin com exe ovl)

No luck. The browser loads the file directly in the window.

So I defined a new application type (first with AddType, then
editing mime.types) trying to achieve the same effect - to no  
avail.
Finally, I reworked everything through a cgi-bin script that sticks the
correct Content-type: header in front of the file, than shoots it down the
socket and lo! - everyhting is as I expected.

In fact, connecting to port 80 and issuing the appropriate GET statement, I can
see that apache sends me the file *WITHOUT* headers.

This galls me. Where is the catch? Should I change something in the .conf files,
besides AddType?

Apache Version is 1.0.3

Advanced thanks,
        Aleesandro Forghieri
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AddType application/octet-stream bin exe com ovl

The catch is that UNIX filename extensions are case sensitive.  So
this would NOT work for a file called "TEST.COM".  If you use mixed
case, list upper and lowercase extensions (exe EXE com COM ...).

Playing with your 'mime.types' file is not recommended.

David Efflandt/Elgin, IL USA