Re: <PRE tab-width=4> (Thumbs Down)

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Fri, 27 Jan 95 14:20:46 EST

Dan says
>For example, if there's a postscript file on an FTP server out there
called "report_127," you effectively can't link to it given today's
web.

But doesn't that mean simply that not enough info is being sent
about the file by the server, or that the client isn't smart enough?
Putting a content-type att on <A> seems like a fragile solution
to the problem, as it shifts responsibility to the author of
the doc, who is in most cases just a poor dumb human.

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