Re: Serving up MP3s

That won't always work.  If a binary file is served with a type of
text/plain, then a CR/LF conversion may take place, corrupting the
downloaded file.  The only for-sure solution is to use the correct MIME
type.  If the correct MIME type is used, then the user's client software
will either use a plugin, or launch a separate application - however the
user has set it up.

Justin H.

----- Original Message -----
From: <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 8:43 AM
Subject: RE: Serving up MP3s


> The easiest solution is to just give your users an instruction to right
> click the link (or whatever the Mac equivalent is for those folks) and
> select save as manually.  Many people automatically try right clicking
first
> anyway because we are fed up with the browsers launching apps to "view"
the
> files we want to download.
>
> That way those who have their browsers set up to automatically launch a
> player for the files will still be able to do so, and those who want to
> download them can do that too.  This way, everybody's happy (except for
> those people who refuse to read the instructions).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Imran Zaidi [mailto:hwglister(at)mail.technicalcommunication.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:03 AM
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Serving up MP3s
>
> Anyone know of a way to deliver MP3s without having to set up streaming or
> something costly?
>

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