> To: mink@cfa165.HARVARD.EDU (Doug Mink)
> Subject: Re: Client problems with FITS
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 17:44:46 -0400
> From: Alberto Accomazzi <alberto@cfa0.HARVARD.EDU>
>
> In message <9410141824.AA05834@cfa165.harvard.edu.HARVARD.EDU>, Doug Mink
> writes:
>
> > Alberto,
> > This should probably be "HTTP and FITS files". When I use Mosaic to acces
> > a FITS file as a local file or using FTP, SAOIMAGE pops up as a browser,
> > but when I access an identical file, with a .fits extension, using HTML,
> > Mosaic tries to display it as a text file. Do you know how to fix this?
>
> It's a problem of MIME-typing. When Mosaic gets something from an
> HTTP server, it is the server's responsibility to tell the browser
> what is being returned. Obviously HTTP does not know about
> image/x-fits, so it gives up. I believe that NCSA HTTP 1.3 lets you
> add some mime types. You should check the documentation online.
> I know that adding this to srm.conf works for compressed files:
>
> # AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X 2.1+) uncompress
> # information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
> AddEncoding x-compress Z
> AddEncoding x-gzip gz
>
>
> Another solution is using a CGI script that always returns a
> Content-type: image/x-fits
> to retrieve FITS files (it is kind of a kludge but should work).
> Good luck and let me know what you come up with.
>
> - Alberto
>
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 19:25:50 EDT
> From: mink (Doug Mink)
> To: alberto@cfa0
> Subject: Re: Client problems with FITS
>
> Alberto,
> I updated my httpd to version 1.3 and added the following line to srm.conf
>
> AddType image/x-fits .fit .fits .fts .FIT .FITS
>
> the restarted httpd. saoimage now pops up with the html-requested image.
> I have suggested to the SkyView people at Goddard that they do the same.
> Apparently IPAC's system already does the right thing. Now all I have to
> do is add WCS awareness to saoimage, a task for which I now have the
> libraries. I hope to have everything working by next Thursday's lunch
> talk.
> -Doug