Hi Emily, Thanks for your detailed information, and you are absolutely right: it only happens with some servers. best wishes! globe... --- Emily Brantley <located@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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> > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
