The answer is I think mostly in the SERVER. The fedora.us server advertises the rpm as being of type application/x-rpm, but the freshrpms.net (seems to be) explicitly advertising the file as audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin. At least that's what Mozilla 1.6 reports to me when I get the "Whaddya wanna do with this?" dialogue window. Now, if a server doesn't set the type explicitly, the browser goes to its plugins and guesses at the type based on the ".rpm" ending. Although, since I don't have the Real plugin, it can't do that, so I get the decision box, where I can choose to save the file.On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:02:45 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Mozilla Menu -> Edit -> Settings -> Navigator -> Helper Applications ->
File types -> change from Helix player to just download
application/x-rpm is set to save files to disk. I deleted the entry for
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin, but it didn't have any effect. I've just
noticed the following: Clicking for example any .rpm in the following link
will correctly open the save as dialog box-
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/ However,
clicking this link will give me a Helix logo screen as it tries to run it
as an RealPlayer plugin Metafile. http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/1/gstreamer-plugins/gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.6.3-3.1.fr.i386.rpm
Can anyone reproduce this? I'm not sure how to work around this other than
deleting the Helix plugin. Why are some .rpm's being interpreted as
"application/x-rpm" and yet some as "audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"?
Thanks
I would drop a note to the webmaster at freshrpms.net. They really ought to know better.
-- Fritz Whittington Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. (Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.)
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