Re: MIME type setup for torrent files

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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




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