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[Chris Shiflett]

--- Marc Antony Vose <suzerain at suzerain.com> wrote:
> It's worth pointing out, I suppose, that to some systems (i.e., 
> classic Mac OS), once you tell the browser that a JPEG (or PDF in 
> your case) is "application/octet-stream", it is no longer a JPEG
> (or PDF).

Can you explain that? I don't understand how it could matter after the resource
has been downloaded and saved to the filesystem. Typically, the content type
described in the HTTP response is used by the HTTP client only.

I'm certainly not arguing, but I'd like that explained further if you are
certain it is true.

Chris

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