Okay, there should be no problems downloading the mp3 with any browser now
(
http://www.mcs.net/~unferth/). If you still have the corrupted file that
won't play, DeTox for DOS (
http://www.webimg.com/detox/) will fix it nicely.
If you have a Mac and an ANSI C compiler, I should have code you can compile
to fix broken mp3s on Monday.
The problem was that my ISP's webserver was incorrectly reporting the
content-type to be text/plain. MSIE ignores this field and instead just
guesses the filetype based on its extension, in this case, correctly.
Netscape, on the other hand, dutifully regards the content-type field to be
the true file type. This is probably the more correct approach for a
multi-platform application, but it leads to problems if your webserver
doesn't know about certain filetypes. After all, the webserver bases its own
content-type field on the extension, unless you override its default
interpretation, which I did by creating a file called .htaccess containing
the line "AddType audio/mpeg mp3" This corrects the Content-type field on my
webserver (NCSA/1.5.2).
Happy listening,
Ed