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Posted by Sherm Pendley on 07/26/07 14:55
"lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com" <lovecreatesbeauty@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jul 26, 9:43 am, "asdf" <a...@asdf.com> wrote:
>> "lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com" <lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1185413830.451217.154570@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> >I don't see any Html tag in some Html pages, for example, this one:
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>> >http://ftp.gnu.org/README
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>> > How does it make paragraphs, newlines ... without <P>, <BR> ...
>> > respectively? And how does it present < and > without < and > ?
>> > Does it use some CSS to achieve that?
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>> > Thanks
>>
>> Answer:
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>> It's not an html page. It's a text document on an FTP server.
>>
>> Newlines are probably the carriage return/line feed character. '<' is an
>> ascii character, so it's valid text anyway.
>>
>> No smoke or mirrors, no CSS :))
>
> Thanks asdf and Sherm Pendley.
>
> Does FTP server present any file (including plain text file) same as
> WEB server presents Html files? Can it present graph, Forms,
> tables ...?
Note that the above is not coming from an FTP server; if it were, the URL
would be ftp: instead of http:, which is a web server. The host name (in
the above, ftp.gnu.org) has nothing to do with the protocol that's used.
That's determined by the scheme, which in the above is http:.
What's more, a web server doesn't "present graph, forms, tables"; all it
does is send the appropriate MIME type (text/html, text/plain, image/gif,
etc.) for the file it's serving - it's up to the client to handle each
type however it sees fit.
But to answer your question, no, FTP servers do not send MIME types. Most
of the time it doesn't matter; an FTP client normally just saves the file
to disk anyway, regardless of its type.
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