[OSM-talk] Announce: new version of Validator plugin

[David Earl]

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> From: Francisco R. Santos [mailto:frsantos at gmail.com]
> Sent: 28 May 2007 18:50
> To: David Earl
> Cc: Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: new version of Validator plugin
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> On 5/28/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> I think it is the text/plain that is causing the problem: the browsers are
> having to guess at the content, and it isn't really possible to tell the
> different between a jar and zip. If you have a Filename with your
> Content-Type, I think IE7 would be OK as well.
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> I don't think IE7 is wrong here; it's just that there isn't enough
> information in the header.
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> So it is a IE7 problem. Surprise!! As it thinks the file is a
> .zip, it renames it to a .zip file, instead of leaving the name
> as it was. Great.


I don't think IE7 is being unreasonable here. It's not an IE7 problem, it's
a problem with what it is receiving, and IE7 is doing a reasonable thing,
which on this occasion happens not to be what you intended.

The suffix on the filename bears no relation to what a server delivers. If
you request a url ending in php you don't get a php file back.


> As the plugin jar file is located in the space my ISP provider
> gives me for free, I don't have many options. Although the server
> is Apache (I don't know which version), it doesn't understand the
> .htaccess file, so I can't force it to send a Content-Type header.
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> I'll put a note in the wiki, in case any other person has this problem.

Could you put it also in the table at
http://josm.eigenheimstrasse.de/wiki/Pluginsas that's where someone is going
to encounter the problem.

Or maybe someone could volunteer some space to host the plugin on a real
server.

David