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reosarevok

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Oct 12, 2007, 8:54:19 PM10/12/07
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Hi, trying a gopher server here, I would like to know if there is some
way of getting an mp3 to download correctly. Because as of now, both
firefox and gopher (unix/linux browser) just get some 1byte file,
which is clearly not what I expect when I ask for a 4mb song... any
ideas?

Thanks,
Nicolás

Cameron Kaiser

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Oct 12, 2007, 11:42:08 PM10/12/07
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reosarevok <reosa...@gmail.com> writes:

Use itemtype 9 -- that should simply save it as a binary file.

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reosarevok

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Oct 13, 2007, 10:05:43 AM10/13/07
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On Oct 13, 5:42 am, Cameron Kaiser <ckai...@floodgap.com> wrote:

> reosarevok <reosare...@gmail.com> writes:
> >Hi, trying a gopher server here, I would like to know if there is some
> >way of getting an mp3 to download correctly. Because as of now, both
> >firefox and gopher (unix/linux browser) just get some 1byte file,
> >which is clearly not what I expect when I ask for a 4mb song... any
> >ideas?
>
> Use itemtype 9 -- that should simply save it as a binary file.
>

That's what I was doing... but doesn't work (at least for me). A wav
file seems to download just fine as 's', but mp3 won't do as 's' nor
as '9'...

The files are located here:
gopher://aenea-serv.dyndns.org/1/music

Cameron Kaiser

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Oct 13, 2007, 7:28:02 PM10/13/07
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reosarevok <reosa...@gmail.com> writes:

>>>Hi, trying a gopher server here, I would like to know if there is some
>>>way of getting an mp3 to download correctly. Because as of now, both
>>>firefox and gopher (unix/linux browser) just get some 1byte file,
>>>which is clearly not what I expect when I ask for a 4mb song... any
>>>ideas?

>>Use itemtype 9 -- that should simply save it as a binary file.

>That's what I was doing... but doesn't work (at least for me). A wav
>file seems to download just fine as 's', but mp3 won't do as 's' nor
>as '9'...
>The files are located here:
>gopher://aenea-serv.dyndns.org/1/music

% telnet aenea-serv.dyndns.org 70
Trying 83.97.244.218...
Connected to aenea-serv.dyndns.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
/music/Between_Breaths.mp3

/server/gopher/music/Between_Breaths.mp3: /server/gopher/music/Between_Breaths.mp3: cannot execute binary file
Connection closed by foreign host.

Looks like you have the execute bits set. chmod -x and use itemtype 9, and
it should work.

reosarevok

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Oct 14, 2007, 8:17:26 AM10/14/07
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> Looks like you have the execute bits set. chmod -x and use itemtype 9, and
> it should work.

Working perfectly right now, thanks ;)

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