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Re: Posting Cocoa App on iDisk for Public access
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Re: Posting Cocoa App on iDisk for Public access


  • Subject: Re: Posting Cocoa App on iDisk for Public access
  • From: Dan Wood <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:16:12 -0700

I found a specific instance where the ".dmg" extension wasn't enough. When my application was downloaded from my site's web server from Internet Explorer, IE was obeying the MIME type, which my ISP didn't properly have set as data, causing the bytes to load into the browser page. OmniWeb, on the other hand, paid attention to the .dmg extension and worked fine.

After getting my ISP to add the appropriate MIME type, downloads from my site worked fine under IE.

So it's a combination of both client *and* server....

Regards,
Dan Wood



On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 09:58 am, Graeme Hiebert wrote:

On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 09:14 , Ricky Sharp wrote:

Definitely agree with the disk image approach. Of course, for maximum compatibility, also encode in MacBinary II. Again, if configured correctly, the browser should automatically do the decoding process. The user would then end up with a disk image. I've also seen cases where the disk image is also mounted automatically.

There is no need to MacBinary a disk image; it has only a data fork. Just make sure it has a ".dmg" extension, and their web browser should open it upon downloading.

I've found DiskCopy's compression to be very good. Though I haven't tested it, I suspect it uses zlib compression, as it seems to compress things down quite nicely.

-g
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