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

[Francisco R. Santos]

On 5/28/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.


I don't agree with you. If I request a .php with a Content-Type and a
filename headers, it should be renamed the way I say. But if I don't provide
any Content-Type at all, I don't expect IE to rename the page to .txt or
whatever IE thinks it may be. It doesn't know what it is, so, why does it
try to gess?. That is the always present Microsoft's  lemma "You don't know
what  you are doing, so I'll do it for you".

Anyway...

> 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.
> >
> > 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.


I've added a note to the wiki. I'll add it to this other page as well.


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