Re: FLASH: Response from Web Host re:mime setting

[Joe Crawford]

Keenwittedaol [dot] com

 wrote:

> 

> Hello Flashers,

> 

> I'm learning Flash and about to revamp my website (www.big.com (which

> currently only has a short Director animation on it). After learning all the

> problems re:MIME  SETTINGS, i emailed my host service and got the following

> answer. Is this valid or are they giving me the runaround and I need to

> switch? Thanks in advance to the Mime enlightened experts.

> 

> "Erm... the site in question appears to use Flash types and I don't believe

> they make a Flash plugin for UNIX, so this doesn't do much good.

> 

> If you need to add MIME types to your site, this is quite simple to do.  All

> you need to do is to create a .htaccess file containing the proper MIME types,

> and upload it to your web directory, /usr/www/users/bigq in ASCII mode.

> Instructions on setting up the MIME types are at

> http://support.pair.com/faq/webserver.html.



Disappointing. Pair networks is a great self-service host. I happen to

host 3 sites with Pair and really like them. Never have seen a response

this chuckleheaded (confusing the server and client side so badly).

Everything important I've ever needed of them has been handled in their FAQs.


See:

http://support.pair.com/faq/webserver.html (which they actually did send

you) - this URL also states that Flash in enabled (and I'd be shocked if

it's not) on their servers:


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How do I add a new MIME type? 


  In your root directory, you'll add AddType commands to your

  .htaccess file (create it if needed). The syntax for AddType is: 


        AddType application/octet-stream dat

        AddType image/pnm pnm


  These examples indicate that any file ending with dat is a plain

  binary file (to be downloaded, not viewed on-screen), and that any

  file ending with pnm is a special image type (which most browsers

  will not recognize for display purposes at this time, unfortunately). 


  A wide variety of MIME types are already recognized by the Web

  server, including those for Shockwave, Flash, and Real Audio

  files; a complete list is available _here_.


http://support.pair.com/faq/mime.txt has the giant list of mime types

they support.


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> Note that there are already many MIME types installed on the server; you will

> likely want to check the list at http://support.pair.com/faq/mime.txt first.


I actually did the magnificent "Croteau test" on my Pair-hosted site and

it works.


http://www.pair.com/mime/


HTH,

	Joe


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 Joe Crawford   { ArtLung }    |

joeartlung [dot] com (mailto:joeartlung [dot] com)

 Web Designer + Integrator     |    http://www.artlung.com

 Respiratory Therapist (Ret.)  |    San Diego  . CA .  USA

                               |

 San Diego WWW-er? See http://www.artlung.com/websandiego/


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