John Smith I wrote:

Cecil:

This link:

http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/media-types.html

you may find interesting ...

Regards,
JS

Further ...

As Roy states, .ez are binary ... so, perhaps ".bin
application/x-binary" would be suitable (just guessing here.)

However, the gods which be disdain posting of binaries to r.r.a.a 8-)

So, maybe we should create rec.radio.amateur.binary ... would be kinda
handy really, we could have pics of babes holding our antennas!
innocent-look ;-)

Regards,
JS

John Smith I wrote:
Cecil: This link:
http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/media-types.html
you may find interesting ...

John, I'm a hardware-type guy. What's the bottom line?
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Roy Lewallen wrote:
EZNEC .EZ files are binary files, and can be handled like any other
binary file.

Here is the latest request from 1and1.com. Please stop the
sandbagging and just answer their question.

"Ask them to give you the actual MIME Type declaration."
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Gene Fuller wrote:
. . .
I hope that nobody is actually trying to launch the file directly from
the website, but if so, those folks need to get a clue, not a MIME type.

For sure. I guarantee that would fail.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Cecil Moore wrote in news:3eM%h.21261$Um6.16572
@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net:

The 1and1.com server that I subscribe to for w5dxp.com
will not process the .EZ files generated by EZNEC. I
received this reply from :

I have no idea what "process" means. In my experience, IT people use the
term to describe something they don't understand in more detail.

If the intimation is that your HSP won't allow you to load arbitrary
files on your webspace for HTTP access, you need another HSP. Better HSPs
will allow you to write your own .htaccess files under Apache and set up
your own associations specific to the directory or tree... if that is
your want.


"In order to get thee working, we need to have the MIME
type for the .EZ file extension installed on the server.
To do this, please contact the company that created the
EZ filetype and ask them to provide to you the MIME type
type for that extension. Let us know what it is so we
can add it."

"get thee working" is also not self explanatory.

The usual reason that you would set up an association of extension and
MIME type on a server is for special handling or to supply extended
headers to a browser. The browser doesn't need the headers, it should
consider the headers, and in the absence of a type header, the extension
(Win only) to determine what action to take when such a document is
received.

That leaves me in a quandary. The author of EZNEC has
ploinked me, asked me not to send him emails, and therefore
I have zero customer support for EZNEC. Could someone reply
to this posting so w7el will see it and, hopefully, put aside
his personal vendetta long enough to answer the customer
service question which not only affects my web page but
also the w2du.com web page?

Don't you ever let a chance go by, go by!

The lack of detail on the "w2du.com problem" leaves one guessing.

Owen

I would have thought that the easiest solution would have been to zip the
..EZ files, I am sure that the server can handle ZIP files.

73
Jeff

Jeff wrote:
I would have thought that the easiest solution would have been to zip the
.EZ files, I am sure that the server can handle ZIP files.

I'm sure there are a number of workarounds. The question
still remains. Why does http://k6mhe.com/sub/VERT1.EZ
and http://www.w5dxp.com/VERT1.EZ not work?
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Cecil Moore wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I would have thought that the easiest solution would have been to zip
the .EZ files, I am sure that the server can handle ZIP files.

I'm sure there are a number of workarounds. The question
still remains. Why does http://k6mhe.com/sub/VERT1.EZ
work and http://www.w5dxp.com/VERT1.EZ not work?
^^^^

Sorry, left out a word above. I tried zipping the EZNEC
file and that worked just fine.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
. ..
Cecil Moore wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I would have thought that the easiest solution would have been to zip
the .EZ files, I am sure that the server can handle ZIP files.

I'm sure there are a number of workarounds. The question
still remains. Why does http://k6mhe.com/sub/VERT1.EZ
work and http://www.w5dxp.com/VERT1.EZ not work?
^^^^

Cecil -

I suspect the second link above does not actually exist. My browser says
"The page cannot be found" which has nothing to do with the file type (.ez).

Sorry, left out a word above. I tried zipping the EZNEC
file and that worked just fine.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

I think some browsers may not be set up to automatically ask what to do with
the file and they might try to execute it. Try right-clicking on your link
and then select "save link as". See if that works.

I've had no problems with the coil file.

Good luck.

John

John - KD5YI wrote:
I suspect the second link above does not actually exist. My browser says
"The page cannot be found" which has nothing to do with the file type (.ez).

Seems it has everything to do with file type .EZ since
every other extension works just fine. If I simply change
the coil505.EZ extension to coil505.bin and leave the file
just as it is, everything works fine. Try it for yourself.

http://w5dxp.com/coil505.bin

The server is reporting that the .EZ file cannot be found even
though it actually exists on the server. It's the Microsoft
server that has the problem. The Linux server works just
fine. Apparently, the Microsoft server doesn't recognize
..EZ as a valid file type. If I ZIP the .EZ file, it also
handles it just fine.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com