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trouble with downloads

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Contributed by: yennta Saturday, July 10 2004 @ 12:57 AM PDT

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Used Product For: 1-6 months

Often when I download shareware and freeware with Mozilla I'll get a page of code instead of the download. This doesn't happen with Safari.

System Info:OS 10.2.4

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trouble with downloads - Greg H

This is because of a problem on the server where the download is stored. It's not sending the correct MIME type for the file you're downloading, so Mozilla is actually responding correctly. Other browsers make assumptions, even though the MIME type is wrong. When this happens, click the back arrow and click on the download link again while holding the OPTION key. That'll force it to download. (This happens to all of us, BTW--often with .dmg disk image files because Apache isn't configured for them by default).

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Sunday, July 11 2004 @ 01:43 AM PDT