Re: ZIP File Problem

i downloaded it using ie 5 and netscape 6.  it worked fine on both.

tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Consult-Eco" <stevemc(at)consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk>
To: "HTML W.G. (Basics)" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Cc: "HTML W.G. (Techniques)" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 12:43 AM
Subject: ZIP File Problem


> Dear All,
> 
> I hope you can help me with this problem, it is getting me down.
> 
> I have a web-page with a number of file downloads in *.zip format - the
> files were zipped up using WinZip. The downloads work fine when accessed
> by my users with IE (all versions). However, when users using Netscape
> access the files they load into a white screen on Netscape and show part
> of the header of the file in black text, rather than downloading the
> file to their hard-disks as it should.
> 
> The page is:  http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/guitar/tab.htm
> 
> I have tried deleting and re-inputting/re-writing the html code from
> scratch; I have deleted and re-created the files and now I am at a loss.
> A friend in America who does exactly the same thing on his pages (with
> another server) has no problems at all and has suggested that it is
> something to do with the incorrect MIME Type being set on the server.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Steve.
> 
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