yeah, i don't think it is just me, and not just a computer/browser issue. but if people need to know: linux, mozilla 1.0.something...
right-click-save-as does the same thing as clicking the link. it allows you to download whatever has been uploaded. but if that thing was uploaded without a file extension, then i have to trust whatever the server tells me about the MIME type, which could be accurate or not.
maybe a good test case would be the loopool file. it has no extension, and the server tells me it is an x-bzip2 file. however, 'bunzip2 loopool' doesn't know what to do with it, and inflates the whole archive as one big file, when it should be a directory with multiple files.
could the maintainers of pure-data.org either explicitily request that people remember the file extension in whatever form they fill out, or even more explicitely require them to enter the extension manually when they upload?
thx+g'night, d.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Marc Lavallée hat gesagt: // Marc Lavallée wrote:
Because people should write the full name (with the extension) of all the files they made available on pure-data.org; Plone (the backend system of pure-data.org) don't use the original name of the uploaded file, but the name entered in the 'name' field.
I second that: There are a lot of files on pure-data.org that do not have an extension. I'd encourage any owners of these file to fix that. For example on http://www.pure-data.org/community/tracks/ 3 out of 6 tracks do not have file extensions.
ciao