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- Mowgli C Assor writes:
- > Um, I've been playing with various ways of getting postscript to display
- > via XMosaic (1.0). When you use FTP, things are fine, because the FTP daemon
- > doesn't do any processing, and so when XMosaic hands off to Ghostview or
- > whatever, life is fine.
- >
- > However, when HTTP processes the file, it puts the line :
- >
- > <PLAINTEXT>
- >
- > in front of the rest of the document. Thus, when it gets back to Ghostview,
- > it chokes because <PLAINTEXT> is invalid PS. This may again get us to the
- > point of needing "type tags" for different types of files, but with the
- > coming various "multi-media" browsers, it seems to me to be a problem we
- > need to solve somehow (perhaps the URLs will help, but I don't think they
- > are the ultimate solution).
- >
- > I can just set up a filter for Ghostscript which removes the offending
- > line, but is there a better solution?
-
- The long-term solution is to move to HTTP2. One short-term solution
- that you may want to explore is the NCSA public domain httpd, on
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic/ncsa_httpd, which will never do this to
- data files.
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
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