Re: Rpm download

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On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:50, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 November 2006 09:37, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>>The lightscribe.com site has an incorrected mime-type set for .rpm
>>>files (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin), at least for .rpm files as most
>>>of us are used to them.  You can use wget to download it:
>>
>> That's not lacies mistake
>
>Yes, it is their mistake.  They are returning the wrong mime-type.
>See for yourself with curl:
>
>$ curl --head
> http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/downloads/lightscribe-
>1.4.124.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Content-Length: 489040
>Content-Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin       <----- wrong
>Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:20:20 GMT
>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>ETag: "05a6c51bcfec61:79d"
>Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
>X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:41:09 GMT
>
>Compare that to a server properly configured for .rpm software
>packages:
>
>$ curl --head
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedor
>a/RPMS/curl-7.15.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:48:48 GMT
>Server: Apache
>Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:21:52 GMT
>ETag: "107529d-3a07b-9ee00400"
>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>Content-Length: 237691
>Cache-Control: max-age=86400
>Expires: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:48:48 GMT
>Content-Type: application/x-rpm                 <----- right
>
>> its the browsers mimetype associations and can be fixed if one is
>> determined to.
>
>You wouldn't be fixing it so much as rigging it if you forced all
>content with the mime-type audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin to be
>downloaded or worse yet, sent to some tool that is expecting an rpm
>package.  What if you want to view an actual Real Audio .rpm?  The
>mime-type should be set properly by the web server to give the best
>indication to the browser of what it should be doing with the content.
>
>> Its also very very commonly made, and can be worked around by right
>> clicking and choosing the save as option from the pop-up.
>
>In this case that's difficult do to the lightscribe site not providing
>a direct link to the file but instead making the user click "I Agree"
>to a popup window and then redirecting to the (wrongly labelled) .rpm
>file.

I see.  Interesting is that the fedora page didn't even have 
a "content-type' listing.  But it usually works.

What should the lacie site be returning as a content type?

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