Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:50, Todd Zullinger wrote: [...] >>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 >> [...] > I see. Interesting is that the fedora page didn't even have > a "content-type' listing. But it usually works. Eh? It has a content-type header (which I highlighted as right). > What should the lacie site be returning as a content type? They should be returning application/x-rpm. At the very least, they should not be returning a real audio content-type. In apache you can easily change the content type returned for a file type on a per-directory or even a per-file basis. I have no clue whether the Windows IIS server can do this or not, but they should find a way to make it happen if they plan to serve up .rpm software. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- political "extremist" Benjamin Franklin
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