 Adding MIME Types
What if your server wasn't set up to deliver certain file types properly?
A common occurrence with MP3 or even SWF files. Simple enough to fix:
AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf
AddType is specifying that you are adding a MIME type.
The application string is the actual parameter of the
MIME you are adding, and the final little bit is the default extension for
the MIME type you just added, in our example this is swf
for ShockWave File.
By the way, here's a neat little trick that few know about, but you get
to be part of the club since JavaScript Kit loves you: To force a file to
be downloaded, via the Save As browser feature, you can simply set a MIME
type to application/octet-stream and that immediately
prompts you for the download. I have no idea how that would be useful, but
that question has come up in our
Forums
from time to time, so there ya' go.
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