.tgz displays in browser

[Scott M]

Forrest,


The server tells us that the file at 
<http://www.itoast.de/downloads/calsync1.1.tgz> is of the following 
type:

May 06 13:38:09  Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Since OmniWeb can display text/html content in the browser window, we 
do so.

OmniWeb has the capability to detect when a file is not what the server 
says it is, but this is disabled by default based on user feedback.  
(Some users wanted OmniWeb to strictly obey the content-type sent from 
a server so they could have HTML display as text in browser windows 
simply by sending OmniWeb the text/plain mime type on HTML files.)

However, it's causing enough problems for people that we are going to 
consider enabling it again by default.  In the meantime you can set a 
default to control our behavior.  Using Terminal, enter the following 
command, all on one line:

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb OWHTTPTrustServerContentType -bool 
NO

and if you would like to change it back to the default OmniWeb behavior:

defaults remove com.omnigroup.OmniWeb OWHTTPTrustServerContentType


Regards,


Scott
Support Engineer
The Omni Group


On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 12:52  PM, Forrest Corbett wrote:

> If one clicks "download now" at 
> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9174 - the .tgz displays in the 
> browser window. Works fine in Safari.
>
> -Forrest