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by **David McCal** » Tue, 18 Nov 1997 04:00:00

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I want to serve up MS Word and MS Excel files.......I notice that
application/msword is in the mime.types.......but I am serving from a
UNIX box and my MAC browser doesn't seem to be able to recognise the
.xls or .dlc extensions in a way that causes it to load the applications
indicated above.........are their specific entries in the httpd.conf or
other
config files that will permit this service.......any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks ahead of time.....

David McCall

Information Technology
Sonoma State University
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3613
707-664-2348
-3099(voicemail)

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by **Kurt J. Lanz** » Tue, 18 Nov 1997 04:00:00

> I want to serve up MS Word and MS Excel files.......I notice that
> application/msword is in the mime.types.......but I am serving from a
> UNIX box and my MAC browser doesn't seem to be able to recognise the
> .xls or .dlc extensions in a way that causes it to load the applications
> indicated above.........are their specific entries in the httpd.conf or
> other
> config files that will permit this service.......any help would be
> appreciated.
> Thanks ahead of time.....

No decent browser recognizes the extensions. A decent server, usually
via a file like mime.types, and often through some other mechanism,
recognizes a correspndence between an extension and a "Content-Type"
which it sends in a header line before the document. The browser then
recognizes what it must do with a particular Content-type. So RTFM for
you server to ensure it's sending the correct Content-type, then RTFM
for your browser to be sure it's doing the right thing with that
Content-type. Hope this helps.

--
Kurt J. Lanza

Very Computer

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