Re: mime type conflicts

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:15:05 -0600, Fritz Whittington wrote:

> 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.
> 
> I would drop a note to the webmaster at freshrpms.net.  They really 
> ought to know better.

Yes, I believe it's a server-side issue, and a note has been sent to
Matthias Sauo on this matter. In the meantime, I'll have to wear out the
'ole shift key..
Thanks to all who replied.

-- 
Matt





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