Re: MIME type setup for torrent files

[Elliott Wilcoxon <elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> Once upon a time at band camp Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:52 pm, David Balazic wrote:
>
> > telnet  torrent.dulug.duke.edu 80
> > HEAD /yarrow-binary-i386-iso.torrent HTTP/1.0
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:51:47 GMT
> > Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
> > Last-Modified: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:42:48 GMT
> > ETag: "8003-24d8a-93dc7a00"
> > Accept-Ranges: bytes
> > Content-Length: 150922
> > Connection: close
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > --------------^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >
> > I disagree, it is not set up OK.
> >
> > application/x-bittorrent would be OK.
>
>
> my understanding is that the .torrent files are just plain text files  so it 
> is ok.
>
> Dennis
>
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> .
They are text files, but a text/plain MIME type doesn't let the computer 
downloading know that it's a BITTORRENT text file, so it treats it like 
a text file, and not a Bittorrent file.  I.e. the server is not 
configured properly to serve torrents.

This happens often to me whilst using various BT sites.  Workaround is 
to save the file to disk, then point BT to it using --responsefile.

Elliott Wilcoxon