[lug] Apache displays binary instead of prompting to download.

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Elyse Grasso (emgrasso at data-raptors.com) wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> We have some files available for download on our website, including exes 
> that are self-extracting zip files, and windows doc files.
> 
> When I click on the links I get displays like:
> 
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> á""®=&&jL66Zl??A~÷÷ õÌÌO??44\h¥¥ôQåå4Ñññ ùqq"âØØs«11Sb  ?*    
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> 
> Instead of being prompted to save the file to disk.
> 
> I assume we have something set wrong in either the HTTPD.conf or the 
> html tags.
> 
> Trying to google for apache downloads is not very useful. 
> 
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.
> 
The only thing that comes immediately to my mind (being no HTML expert),
it the content type flag.  Did you give it something like:
<a href=url content="application/gzip">link</a>

Maybe the browswer is assuming it is text, and trying to display it.

Tim
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