Re: [Pipmak-Users] Great Tool!!

[Urs H. <ur...@an...>]

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> Dear Urs,
> 
> thank you for the answer,
> I cannot operate on the web server, my pages are hosted on a free (or
> nearly) public server (http://www.altervista.org).
>
> This host use Apache as web server and I tryed to put a .htaccess file
> in my download folder, but without success,
> because to modify .htaccess files I have topay "1000 altercents"...
> that I haven't.
> I could "earn" altercents (the currency of this site),
> if I put advertising banners on my pages...but I do not want to do
> that.. with "altercents" I could enlarge my web space, add some sql
> databases and so on... these are the rules of this site...

I give you one little hint: Go on like this. Never put advertising
banners on your webpage.

> So, I just put only html, js or php file on the server
> and my space is only 100MB. That's all!

OK, there are still some tricks left you could try. To be exact, there
are three that come to my mind right now:

1. You can put .php-files on the server that are then executed by it?
Unfortunately I do not know php. But I imagine, that a php-application
can tell the server the content-type of the content it generates. This
isn't better as my solution 3, because then you would have to use the
ending .php. But knowing apache, you can safely add "/my.pipmak" to the
URL of a php-file. (Do you know php a little? If yes, we could work out
this solution if you are interested and have the time. (Ignoring my own
time shortage.))

2. You can try to tell the server the content-type of your file with
a .var-file. .var-files are usually used by content-negotiation. This
sounds complicated and it is complicated. But the solution would be
rather simple. Let's say your pipmak-projectfile is my.pipmak. Now add
a file with the name my.pipmak.var or my.var (you have to try both, I
don't know which is more likely to work) with the following two lines:
URI: my.pipmak
Content-type: application/octet-stream
I guess you have 2% chance that this works.

3. The third one is the simplest solution. It is also the one that works
most likely. Simply put the ending .bin to your file. Apache should
send such files as application/octet-stream by default.

> About screen resolution, probably you are on right, mine it was just
> an idea.

Before you forget this idea, read what Christian has to say about this.

Greetings
Urs