DEAR QUICKTIME

[substitute]

WHEN SOMEONE SENDS A REQUEST TO MY WEBSERVER FOR AN MP3 FILE, THEY GET HEADERS LIKE THIS:

200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:10:47 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "2b0a8-60ac4b-765d9280"
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.8 DAV/2 PHP/4.4.0
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 6335563
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Last-Modified: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:03:06 GMT
Client-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:10:47 GMT
Client-Peer: 64.81.85.145:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME, IN YOUR OWN WORDS, HOW THIS IS A "MOVIE" AND WHY YOU ARE RESTRICTING HER FROM SAVING IT TO HER LOCAL DISK UNLESS SHE PURCHASES QUICKTIME PRO. WE HAVE ALREADY UNCHECKED ALL THE BOXES. THERE IS A STORE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF MY HOUSE THAT SELLS SHOTGUNS, AND I HAVE A FULL TANK OF GAS IN THE CAR. I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATION HERE.

LOVE,

SOMEONE WHO READS THE RFC'S AND TAKES THEM SERIOUSLY

Comments

[trinnit.livejournal.com]

You forgot to mention the Shotgun store is by the Hardware store with shovels and lye.

Signed
Someone who has read too many Murder Mysteries

Quicktime

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

Quicktime, especially under Windows, is not so much an application as a sterile but chronic viral infection.

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

From what I remember (I have been using "Pro" for a while), there are two ways to save. First, through their little down-arrow-menu thinger to the right of the "you are here" slider, which includes things like "QuickTime Settings..." and the (grayed out for non-Pro) "Save..." is one way. From what I recall, saving through the File->Save As... browser pulldown menu still works, regardless of whether it is Pro or non-Pro.

I could be wrong, though, or they could have changed things in the intervening time.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Cool. The real problem is that despite numerous attempts on her computer, Quicktime won't stop insisting it owns that mime type, or stop referring to the mp3's as "movies".

[trinnit.livejournal.com]

If it's Windows, check the File association. If it's associated with the MP3 type it may also figure the mp3 mime too.

Quicktime

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

I have a dim memory that at some point, on some MSWin machine that has Quicktime on it, I had to write a thingy that, each bootup, would have to undo the associations that Quicktime kept asserting each time it was used.

Horrible horriblesoftware.

[nikolasco.livejournal.com]

If it's Firefox:
Tools/Firefox>Options/Preferences>Downloads>File Types>Plug-ins
in 1.5, "File Types" has been replaced with "Download Actions"

This actually works for me with 1.5 beta 2 for Windows. It fails miserably in OS X and I haven't tested Linux yet.

[aml.livejournal.com]

if i have to download an mp3 or mov file on a windows box, i usually read the source and then crap out a little html file with an href to the file that i can right-click on.

yes. ow.