[Shark026]

I believe that I have had this problem with Safari since I have installed Tiger. I can't seem to download any compressed files expect for .zip files. Every other compressed file type (.rar, .sitx, etc),instead of downloading, loads a new page of complete mumbo jumbo! Has anyone else experienced this problem? I have been switching back and forth from Firefox and Safari to download files, but I want it to work on Safari.

Here is an example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...26/problem.gif

Anyone else having the same problem?

[TETENAL]

It's a misconfiguration of the server afaict.

Hold down the Option key before clicking the link to .sit(x) files.

[madmacgames]

I've always had this problem with .sitx files, no matter what server they are on. As far as I can tell, it is a Safari or Stuffit problem. I'm only on 10.3.9 too. If you download and open MisFox, you can see there is no file mapping for .stix files. I guess you could add one if you wanted to.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by madmacgames

I've always had this problem with .sitx files, no matter what server they are on. As far as I can tell, it is a Safari or Stuffit problem.

No, it's definitely a server configuration problem. .sitx is a rather new extension and by default the servers don't know about it so they send it with a text mime-type. Most people who offer .sitx files don't know how to configure the server correctly or don't have the privileges to do so.

[madmacgames]

Even so, at least Firefox has the wits about it to download .sitx as binary files instead of displaying as text. The server may be responsible for sending the mime-type, but that doesn't mean the client cannot also be a little responsible and check that the server knows what its talking about.

[Shark026]

Thanks for the replies guys. At least I know that it is not a problem with Safari, just a server problem. I tried holding down the option key, but it just saves as a .txt file. The file will open if renamed. So I guess that I will just have to rename those files that have this problem.

[OptimusG4]

Or, you could copy the link then open the downloads window and paste it in there...

[david_copperfield]

when you are pushing down a wall, why not use a cannon rather than hammers?

using the safari/firfox's download manager is not convinient.

speed download is a nice tool to use.

[__^^__]

With Tiger I've never had a problem downloading sitx files only expanding them. I finally figured out I had to down stuffit expander. Go figure.

[wataru]

There can be very strange server/browser interactions. For quite a while, all of the HTML pages served off of my iDisk would be downloaded instead of viewed by default in Gecko-based browsers. Apple Support said it was a known issue, but they never did anything about it so I switched hosts. I don't know if it's still a problem or not.

[- - e r i k - -]

Tell developers to STOP using StuffIt to distribute their wares. We live in a world of compressed dmgs and zips now. StuffIt should have died when we transitioned to OS X. But old habits die hard I guess.