Re: serving dynamic binary files

Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonathan Lang <dataweaver42@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > So far, I have successfully echoed a couple of HTML documents, a text
> > document, and a JPEG graphical image; when I tried echoing back a ZIP
> > file, I got its contents on the screen as if it was a text document. 
> > Why is this?  
> 
> Given that it worked for other binary files, I would wonder whether
> your Apache config doesn't have a mime-type assignment for the .zip,
> and thus sends out a content type of text/plain or text/html.

I was explicitly setting the content-type of the downloading file to match
the content-type that I got from the uploading file.  

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Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

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