Well, there doesn’t seem to be an official mime-type for that, but you
could use the catch-all application/octet-stream as the type, that
just says “don’t mess with me, I’m binary”.
When you say you’re just on Comcast, do you mean you are hosting the
files from Comcast’s “home sharing” service?
If not, try searching this list from the home page (so you search all
of the Freeway lists at once) for the word ‘ForceType’. That will
bring up a number of references to a recipe for an .htaccess file
command to do precisely what you need. (You might even try using it
even if you’re hosted with Comcast – it can’t hurt, and you’ll know
right away if it didn’t work because your site will be blank or have a
500-series error page. Take away the command and all will be well
again. And then you can start looking for a real hosting provider, too!)
Walter
On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Christopher Young wrote:
On Feb 2, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
What file-type extension do these GC files have? You could probably
set a mime-type on your server and have this all happen quite
automagically IF there’s a known mime-type for that file extension.
The developer of GC will have registered that file-type with the
Mac at installation time, and GC will respond like any good
“helper” application by opening the file and coming to the front,
as long as the owner of the Mac has left the default settings
alone. If they’re security conscious, and turned off the “Open
‘safe’ files” option in Safari, then the file will just sit there
in the Downloads tray, but at least then a double-click will launch
the correct application to open it.
Walter
It’s a .gcf extension. I don’t know anything about setting mime-
types, I’m just using Comcast. Safari doesn’t have an “Open safe
files” option, which seems like a big drawback to me. I’m going to
check out some other browsers. It’s a nuisance to have to download,
take off the text extension “.txt”, and finally open the file. By
default, Safari is opening the file as text on the same web page,
which is just about totally useless.
Thanks for the help, though.
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