[xx1943]

Hi all

I post a lot *.lin-files on my site.
example
If you click on the link browsing IEP the file is opened the BBO-software,
but if you click on the same link browsing with Firefox you get the source-code.

I tried to add in the htmlcode type"application/bbolin", but it didn't work.

Viewing lin-movies from bbo-hands works fine with firefox

Anyone able to help my problem?

ty

Al

[hotShot]

This is not a matter of HTML code!

If i pick up a local .lin file and drop it to an empty firefox window, i'm asked what to do with it and i can define to start the BBO-Software with it.

[uday]

Can you configure your web server so that it knows to use the right MIME headers for files with the LIN extension?

I can't remember exactly how this is done (tho i vaguely remember that on linux/apache there is some file called "magic" or something) , but you can make the web server issue the "application/bbolin" command when it is sending down a LIN file.

You want something like this in the HTTP response (not in the actual lin filet is sent back) . You can't add this by simply editing a lin file. You have to configure the web server, or you have to deliver the files via a script that issues the content type and then dumps the file

Content-Type: application/bbolin

[chicken]

i have been trying this for the last 2 years. gerardo was of some help, but to be honest
it still doesnt work. my computerskills unfortunately dont match the problem.
this is sad for *lin because many people would use it much more often to display hands.

[uday]

This is a tech thing, so you need some tech skills, I fear

On one of my (linux) systems, this line, added to /etc/mime.types

application/bbolin lin

does the trick. If you don't have your own server, I suggest you ask your sysadmin how to associate specific mime types with specific file extensions when serving html documents.

[hotShot]

Try to put a file named: ".htaccess" containing the following line:

AddType application/bbolin .lin

into the directory containing the lin files or the document root directory of your server.

If you have a real "hosting package" and not just some sort of homepage and your provider is using apache, this should work.

[chicken]

.htaccess.html ?

or "anyname".htaccess ?

[hotShot]

just ".htaccess" nothing more and nothing less

Unix filenames starting with '.' are not displayed by default when you list the files of a directory. They are often used for configuration files.

[chicken]

sigh, i tried it but the lin file opened as sourcecode again. additionally my norton security reported an external attack bei some IP-adress 102.000.***
i will talk to my provider tomorrow.

[nikos59]

I wonder, why hasn't someone written an add-on to allow
FF to properly open lin files.

[uday]

FF does the right thing, i believe, by scanning for the presence of the mime type.

I think IE also looks at the extension of the file and opens the appropriate viewer but I don't know that this is "correct" behaviour.

[xx1943]

I edited the mimetypes.rdf and added this:


<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/bbolin"
NC:fileExtensions="lin"
NC:description="Bridge Movie"
NC:value="application/bbolin"
NC:editable="true">
<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/bbolin"/>
</RDF:Description>

Now I can drag and drop a lin-file from my PC into FF, but the link I provided above doesn't work yet.

example

If I click on this browsing my FF I get the source-code of the lin-file.

I hate my PC.

Al

[hotShot]

Al it is a server issue, not a client one. You defined what FF should do, when it gets the mimetype "application/bbolin" from the server. But if the server is not prepared to do that, the default mimetype is text/html. This is why you see the listing.

My hosting provider supports, the ".htaccess" file, chickens provider does not. I know that you have a different provider than both of us, and they (freenet) offer hosting with and without this feature.

If you hosting provider is not supporting this, but you can use e.g. PHP-scripts, than it is possible to write a short PHP-script that will deliver the lin-file setting the mimetype manualy.

[chicken]

however while browsing for the solution i found out, that it is a wanted feature of ff 2.0 for security reasons. i additionally found a 5 pages description how to change something in the sourcecode of ff to allow the direct procedure. i will post the link when i have found it again.

[chicken]

hm,
these seem to solve the problem, to be honest i dont dare trying it


http://www.wanginator.de/posts/22/

http://wiki.bsdforen..._und_MIME_Types