On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:51 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: > I have a strange problem -- when i click to download RPM files, instead of > going to install package, I get the Realplayer all going....anyone know how to > work around this, beyond saving the file and installing? > > Thanks and best wishes! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > this happens only with some servers. the problem is that particular server hasn't sent the right content-type header during the HTTP session. given an RPM package to send, an unaware web server can only guess at what an RPM is, and if it doesn't know about Red Hat, it guesses it's a Real Player Media file and tells your browser so (using the MIME type "audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"). it's really just a matter of adding a single directive ("AddType application/octet-stream .rpm") to either the global config file httpd.conf or to .htaccess in the same directory as the packages. (this all assumes apache as the web server.) try contacting the webmaster of the server you got the package from and informing them about this. (sometimes servers are configured to give the MIME type "application/x- redhat-package-manager" or "application/x-rpm", and while browsers usually don't know what that means, they just treat it as an octet- stream (unknown binary) and download it as such. i suggest the generic octet-stream because it's official, but using one of the unofficial types will let browsers tell it apart from other types (so they can know to run "Install Package" on it)) -- Emily Brantley <located@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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