Hi there janina! I might be able to help, but first, have you found any pages that proffer this with the the extention you are trying to code for? It seems that your lynx is seeing .iso as some sort of readable text. This may be changeable on your end but I wouldn't begin to know how to do it. I know for instance, with ie, .pdf, .txt, .doc and many others act this way unless you jump through hoops to prevent it. The most relyable way I have found to provide file transferrability is to make zip or exe the extention even if it is not really the extention and depending on how the server is configured, you may have to use ftp:// in the hreff. I hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <ma-linux at tux.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:42 AM Subject: HTML Question -- Binary Downloads Can someone tell me what determines whether a hyperlinked file will be treated as a text page to be retrieved and rendered as opposed to a binary file to be downloaded and saved? I'm writing a HOWTO and want to point to downloadable image files with hyperlinks, but my links aren't working correctly. I've tried both http:// and ftp:// addressing, but always get the same result--my iso images are grabbed as though they were text. What I'm wanting is the lynx screen that says "Download or Cancel." Is this a permissions issue? A server-side Apache configuration issue? I'm stumped. All help most gratefully appreciated. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
