[Mediawiki-l] Embedding tarballs in mediawiki

[Scott T. Emery]

	It may be exactly like that, which is why I was hoping there
would be a facility.  I *assumed* that the media link would work for
mp3s or oggs (as documented) and attempt to play them.  I don't want
anything to happen to the tarball except that it get downloaded.  If
I use the media link on an arbitrary file (say, one that ends in .tar
or .tgz :-) ) would it just download the file?

Scott Emery
emery at nas.nasa.gov

> Scott T. Emery wrote:
> > 	Mediawiki is really fun and easy to use. I think my initial
> > issues with it are all resolved.  There is one small task I would like
> > to do using mediawiki, but it may be outside its baliwick.  I want to
> > embed a tarball in a wiki page for download using syntax similar to
> > the image and media file links.  This would be a sort of "arbitrary
> > file link" which would download the file for processing on the remote
> > computer.
> 
> I'm not sure how this is supposed to be different from uploading a file
> and using a media link, as already supported...?
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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