It is some kind of safari/application interaction bug. I have an app
that downloads .csv files. recently (after installing Office '08) the
files started downloading as .csv.xls files (same file, but now
with .xls appended). But only for me. The same app. same link
produces .csv files for other users.
On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
> Tried. Failed.
> I'll reboot and see if that works, if not, I'll just script it in
> curl....right now we're scripting downloads of wonder components and
> eclipse in an attempt to auto-update our package installer.
>
> Thanks,
> jeremy
>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>
>> Except I'm on 10.5, too, and it works fine for me. Maybe toss your
>> Safari cache? Is it possible it's cached the old headers? (note:
>> I don't really believe this, but you never know)
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
>>
>>> Bizarre....still does not work, must be a 10.5 bug.
>>> I'll curl it for now...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> jeremy
>>>
>>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>>
>>>> I restarted apache with the change:
>>>>
>>>> mikemachine:~ mschrag$ curl -I http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/Entity%20Modeler%201.0.3.dmg
>>>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>>> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:06:02 GMT
>>>> Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/4.4.4 mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/
>>>> 0.9.7l
>>>> Last-Modified: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:56:06 GMT
>>>> ETag: "1607b7-17896c6-47bfb576"
>>>> Accept-Ranges: bytes
>>>> Content-Length: 24680134
>>>> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>>>>
>>>> Pretty much exactly what I would expect ... How odd.
>>>>
>>>> ms
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Still get the bad file...need to restart apache later?
>>>>>
>>>>> -j
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> OK, check it out .. I added an explicit mime-type for dmg and
>>>>>> also m4v, which was missing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Interesting...when I click this link in Safari:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <Picture 3.png>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It automatically appends that bz2 suffix....this is in the
>>>>>>> stock 10.5.2 Safari...not preview builds or anything....bizarre!
>>>>>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>>>>>> <Picture 6.png>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And if I remove the added extension, and attempt to open the
>>>>>>> dmg directly, I get this:
>>>>>>> <Picture 7.png>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> jeremy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not sure why you're decompressing anything, though ... It's
>>>>>>>> just a dmg, not a dmg.bz2. What is putting a bz2 on the URL
>>>>>>>> for you? If I just click the download link, it downloads a
>>>>>>>> straight dmg and then mounts it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Stuffit is only getting involved because I manually invoked
>>>>>>>>> it...thinking it could handle whatever OS X's built in
>>>>>>>>> "Archive Utility" could not.
>>>>>>>>> So, you can ignore the stuffit part...still cannot
>>>>>>>>> decompress the archive using the built-in OS X 10.5.2 stuff
>>>>>>>>> (Archive Utility).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> jeremy
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Stuffit seems to be able to not get caught in this loop,
>>>>>>>>>>> but the dmg ends up corrupted.
>>>>>>>>>> I think I found your problem .... You need to delete
>>>>>>>>>> Stuffit from your system and be a happier person.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That file is just a .dmg, it's not compressed, so I don't
>>>>>>>>>> know why Stuffit is getting involved at all.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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