Posted by Switchy on 03/17/06 17:43

Do you use Mozzila as your web browser?


"jstorta" <john@storta.net> wrote in message
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> I have the following link in a document
>
> <A href="mycdimage.iso">Test Image</A>
>
> When I click on it in a browser it opens it as though it were and HTML
> file and starts putting random characters in the window.
>
> If I right click and select Save Target As, it allows me to save it but
> says the file type is HTML and tacks on an htm extension to it.
>
> I have gone to other sites and can download iso images without any
> problems so I've determined that the problem is on my web server not
> the browser.
>
> The web server uses Apache Tomcat and the document is a java server
> page. This link is just straight HTML code though.
>
>
> Is there something I am supposed to include in the document or anchor
> tag to indicate that this is a binary file that should be saved when
> clicked or does this sound like a tomcat/JSP problem?
>
> Thanks,
>

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