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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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