[FX.php List] [OFF] Trouble with clients trying to download DOCX files from web server

[Jonathan Schwartz]

This page described docx as a zipped xml file...

http://www.jydesign.com/blog/2007/10/safari-gmail-docx-attachments-zip-files.html


At 2:23 PM -0600 12/30/07, Bob Patin wrote:
>I wish I could get my client to do that, but I can't.
>
>He wants his customers to have unrestricted ability to upload any 
>type of text file; I suggested his instructing his customers to 
>upload ZIP files, but he said no. He also claims that a docx file is 
>a type of ZIP file. Taking that as a possibility, I added "docx" to 
>the list in mime types so that a downloader would then deal with it 
>properly, but no go.
>
>I wonder if this is just something that is a problem with docx 
>files; it works with Leopard, but apparently not with OS X before 
>Leopard, nor with Windows machines (which is really odd).
>
>BP
>
>On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>
>>Is zip on the fly for downloads a way to go?
>>
>>ggt
>
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