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| Red Faction : Lounge : Download .rar on Mac |
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| Hapa Hanu |
  Posted 7th Jun 2006 9:23pm |
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I got a solution for Mac users trying to download .rar files using Safari.
Is this what it looks like when you download a .rar file - a window filled with text?
To avoid this, when presented with the download - right click the link and select Download Linked File. It will download as a .rar.txt file. When it is finished downloading, delete the .txt from the file name and then you can decompress it normally.
Also: There is a solution but I do not know the implications of the following statement.
| Quoting tesseract | Safari generally trusts the Content-Type header, so if it displays a file as text, that's what the site is saying it is. Firefox looks at the actual file contents in some cases to see if the Content-Type is plausible, but that is a concession to the sheer number of misconfigured sites which "work in IE". I believe IE bases its decision of how to handle the file on the extension that the URL ends in, which is just wrong.
I think Safari does content sniffing for some extensions, like .dmg. Anyway, all that to say, if the site was serving the file with the correct Content-Type then Safari would be handling it correctly. |
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Modified Oct 1st, 08:59pm by Hapa Hanu |
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Beatonator  |
Posted 7th Jun 2006 9:48pm |
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Superb discovery! How did you find that out?  |
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| ExoStatic |
Posted 7th Jun 2006 10:36pm |
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It's a simple trick which can also be used on Windows. If you want to protect a private file from being opened, simply open it in notepad, save as TXT, then delete the original.
To get it back, simply open the TXT in Notepad and save as your previous file type... .RAR, for example. |
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| goober |
Posted 7th Jun 2006 10:40pm |  |
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Or you could just rename it... |
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| ExoStatic |
Posted 7th Jun 2006 10:44pm |
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Doesn't work if your system is set to hide file extensions, which, with default settings, it is. |
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Modified Jun 7th, 10:45pm by ExoStatic |
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| goober |
Posted 7th Jun 2006 10:58pm | |
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Yep, i turned it off though, its alot more convienient  |
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NoClanFrank  |
Posted 8th Jun 2006 3:22am | |
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You get an attaboy Hapa Hanu! 
The thread has also been made a sticky, that's your second sticky situation on these forums. |
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| Hapa Hanu |
Posted 8th Jun 2006 6:55am |
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| Quoting Beatonator | | Superb discovery! How did you find that out? |
Well, I would first like to differentiate the difference between "got" and "find". I "got" a solution from the great crew who have been there and done that, Inside Mac Games Forum. I figured there was a solution along these lines but my free time to trouble shoot is severly limited. I did not actually "find" or figure this out on my own, I will confess for the sake of honesty. 
| Quoting NoClanFrank | You get an attaboy Hapa Hanu!
The thread has also been made a sticky, that's your second sticky situation on these forums. |
I like sticky things - both good and bad.  
Edit: The newest versions of FireFox for the MAC platform will download .rar without a problem. |
| I have suffered in real life for the past couple years, now its your turn! |
Modified Apr 24th, 02:58am by Hapa Hanu |
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