On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:18 am, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 09:39 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > > OK so I'm trying to download the AdobeReader rpm. Why is rpm > > associated with x-pn-realaudio-plugin an I can't seem to change it in > > KDE, mater of fact, x-pn-realaudio-plugin doesn't show .rpm > > associated with it. > > Because .rpm named files are also used by Real Media. And that MIME > description comes from the server. > > You should be able to just right-click on a link and download the file > to disk, and it won't care how the server described the file. What I ended up doing was using Konqueror instead of Firefox. But I did try grabbing the link to the file and downloading it with wget as well. I just wanted a rational for the behavior.
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