Re (2): [Oberon] document packaging.

[Chris Burrows]

Hi Peter,

> Debian Iceweasel displays 
> http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/TestDocPackage.html.gz
> as a picture with a caption beneath, as we 
> expect.  IE probably does the same.  

Yes it does.

> 
> TestDocPackage.tar.gz contains TestDocPackage.html
> and Cantor.jpg.  When Iceweasel is given the URI 
> http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/TestDocPackage.tar.gz
> it opens a dialogue to ask whether to open 
> with /bin/tar or to "Save to Disk".
> 

This file actually is recognised as a tar.tar file not a tar.gz file by
my browser. Was it actually gzipped / compressed?

> 
> I haven't seen the file name extension mentioned.  
> Will speculate at a document named
> http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/TestDocPackage.opc 
> which a browser will display automatically.
> (This doesn't exist on Carnot yet.)
> The opc file will be portable as a pdf, 
> readable with a browser rather than with 
> Adobe Reader and smaller that a pdf.
> 

I can't verify this. I get the error message:

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /TestDocPackage.opc on this server."


I'm only guessing but after following your experiments I suspect that
the browser does more than just look at the file extension to determine
what type of file it is.

Try this one - it was the one (picked totally at random) that I referred
to in my original post:

http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.96.1.tar.g
z

Chris