Re: Making httpd(8) deliver files as plain text?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Well, a little work with tcpdump shows that httpd(8) is doing the right 
thing without any special configuration.  It is firefox that doesn't do 
the right thing.  It simply says "This is a binary file" and forces me 
to save to disk.

I've looked in ff's preferences, but it doesn't allow me to update the 
list of "applications" and their associated file types.

FWIW, epiphany works correctly.


On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 05:05:21PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > I'm trying to make httpd(8) deliver *.log as plain text, so my browser
> > doesn't treat the files as binary.  I've added
> >
> >         -M .log text/plain - -
> >
> > to my inetd.conf file (and HUPed inetd) but it doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > I know I must be missing something obvious.  (BTW, an example in the
> > httpd(8) man page would probably be helpful!)
>
> Just a guess, but maybe just "log" instead of ".log"?
>
> eric
>
>
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