Re: Auto-Download tags/function?

Alan Batie (batie@ibeam.jf.intel.com)
Wed, 18 May 1994 11:11:23 -0700 (PDT)

> <A HREF="ftp://host/file.tar.Z" CONTENT-TYPE="application/x-tarZ">
> a tar file</a>

> I still think I was right ;-)

So do I; the protocol has to be told somewhere about such files, and having
a separate control file listing "this file should be handled that way" would
be an administrative nightmare. I don't know of another way to handle the
situation, but the current way is, putting it very mildly, undesirable.

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