Re^5: Notepad: I'm seeing squares.

I'm creating and storing the files on a Unix file server. Then on the windows side, a browser is being pointed at the file. It opens up in the browser. File->Save Page As. Done.

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Re^6: Notepad: I'm seeing squares. by Mutant (Priest) on Nov 23, 2005 at 17:09 UTC
Hmm.. that may not be the best way to do it. The user can choose whatever browser they want, and set things like encoding type, etc. which might cause you a lot of problems. A cleaner way to do it might be to use the 'Content-Disposition' header (try a Super Seach on this), which will prompt the browser to download the file automatically. This may or may not solve your actual problem though. If you've viewed the file with a hex editor once it gets to windows, and it has the correct EOL sequence, then I can't see why notepad should be putting squares after it.	[reply]
Re^6: Notepad: I'm seeing squares. by kwaping (Priest) on Nov 23, 2005 at 19:05 UTC
Is this a web browser you're referring to? If so, what Content-type header is being sent? If it's not "text/plain", try that and see if that helps.	[reply]