On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:01:13AM +1000, Matt H. wrote: > 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"? It's may be server-side thing. Download.fedora.us is (of course) configured to serve rpm files with the application/x-rpm MIME-type, but many other servers are not, and they may use the audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin type when encountering a .rpm extension. David Jansen
