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												Argghh

"Paste it into a '.htaccess' file in the directory where the 3gp  
files reside"

Although I would assume you had gathered that!

Must be this damnable holiday mentality im lumbered with for the next  
week.

Matt


On 7 Aug 2006, at 14:31, Matt Williams wrote:


> My last response was a bit confusing, even to myself.
>
> What you will want to do is paste the following into the directory  
> where the 3gp files reside:
>
> <Files *.3gp>
> Header add Content-Transfer-Encoding "binary"
> Header add Content-Disposition "attachment"
> </Files>
>
> This will only work if apache is handling the content negotiation  
> (which it probably will be if its just serving up files from the  
> filesystem).
>
>
> On 7 Aug 2006, at 14:01, Matt Williams wrote:
>
>> What about setting Content-Disposition to force download and  
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding so it knows its a binary download (i.e.  
>> not a renderable page)
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On 7 Aug 2006, at 13:55, Alex Stanhope wrote:
>>
>>> Afternoon all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to deliver video to a mobile phone over HTTP.  The  
>>> phone connects to a web page.  The web page contains a link to a . 
>>> 3gp video file.  The user clicks the link to watch the video  
>>> (progressive download ideally)... however, what actually happens  
>>> is that most clients (mobile phone web browsers) seem to think  
>>> "ah ha, a .3gp file - it's obviously just a big web page - I'll  
>>> download it".  They try.  They fail, presenting an error message  
>>> "Page too large".
>>>
>>> Now I've tried to force the content-type (to almost everything  
>>> under the sun) both from the link and from the web server  
>>> configuration (Apache but hosted, so no direct access to  
>>> httpd.conf), but no success.
>>>
>>> This (messy) test page has been used to find the best solution  
>>> for PDAs & Mobiles, but the finalists are at the top:
>>> http://www.interactory.com/test/video.html
>>>
>>> At the moment I'm suspecting that it may only be possible over WML.
>>>
>>> Has anyone done anything similar over HTTP or WML?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Alex
>>>
>>> Alex Stanhope
>>>
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