Subj : Arvchive format
To   : Peter Hampf
From : Tom Laermans
Date : Thu Dec 14 2000 10:54 am

Hi Peter ...

At 12-Dec-00 23:18:03, Peter Hampf wrote to Tommi Koivula about Arvchive 
format...

 tk>> Why not simply as a .RAR file?

 PH> Because some browsers still have problems to automatically
 PH> recognise and download .RAR files.
Then it's not the browser but the webserver. Newer Apache (and other!)
versions have no problems with it.

How about zip?

If your webserver supports .htaccess, try this!
It adds some mime types for the multimedia & rar files :)

----------8<--------.htaccess--------8<---------
DefaultType application/octet-stream
AddType audio/x-pn-realaudio .ra
AddType audio/x-midi .mid
AddType audio/x-mpeg3 .mp3
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .rar
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r00
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r01
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r02
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r03
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r04
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r05
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r06
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r07
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r08
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .r09
----------8<-------

This should help...

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