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Prevent 'garbled text' file downloads via server settings
Authored by: bpierce on Feb 19, '04 11:15:55AM

Maybe everyone knows this, but I have a way I use to get around this problem all the time. Incidenatlly, I don't have a net connection at home, so don't surf on my Mac--I have to use my XP machine at work, but something like this should work on a Mac, too.

I right-click on the download link and choose "Save link to disk..." in Firebird/Firefox, and I think it's "Save Target As..." in IE. This brings up a standard save dialogue and I can save the .dmg just fine.

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~Brandon



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Prevent 'garbled text' file downloads via server settings
Authored by: RideMan on Feb 21, '04 09:14:47PM

Sounds familiar; frequently I've downloaded stuff at work using Opera on an XP box to bring home on disk.

Oddly enough, one of the offenders with a malconfigured web server that sends file archives as text happens to be Apple Computer, Inc. I think I was downloading Safari when I bumped into that one.

It's not exclusive to Apple archive files, either. I've seen sites that screw up Windows Media Player files in exactly the same way.

Oh, and those of us who occasionally download Apple ][ Shrinkit archives have been dealing with this for a long, long time...



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