download and Mime problems (was RE: Safe (icon) image IDs)

Sun Nov 13 12:54:14 EST 2005

Could this help? It seems free... and open source ;)

http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/mime-editor/ 

cheers
Xavier 
http://Monsieurx.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> David Bovill
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 18:27
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Safe (icon) image IDs
> 
> On 11 Nov 2005, at 21:17, Scott Rossi wrote:
> 
> > But this reminds me of a "Stupid Web Trick"™ that I use in 
> situations 
> > where I want to grab something from the Web, but for 
> whatever reason 
> > the link is inaccessible from my browser (or Rev in this case).
> >
> > STEP 1 - open your favorite text editor STEP 2 - type the following 
> > into a new document:
> >
> > <html>
> > <body>
> > <a href="http://www.server.com/link_to_file_I_want.xyz">link</a>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > STEP 3 - save the document to your desktop as "link.html" 
> or similar 
> > STEP 4 - open the link document in your Web browser STEP 5 - 
> > control/option click the link to auto-download to your computer
> 
> That's what I was trying to avoid :) This brings up the point 
> of setting mime types for browsers. I asked a couple of times 
> on the list the last month. I confess (miserably) to not 
> having looked at doing this in OSX yet - sure the dialogue is 
> somewhere. But what I really want is to have Rev do this for 
> me, and a few years back someone somewhere posted this on the 
> Metacard list.
> 
> Anyone know how to get Rev to set up the mime types so as to 
> automate this for the user? Aim is to not just get browser to 
> download file and set file type for you, but to allow browser 
> clicked links to open a Rev stack. Can someone clarify the 
> issues here for me? Ideally this would be cross platform - 
> but OSX is good enough for 
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