MIME type setup for torrent files

Kevin Francis kevin at loose-screws.com
Wed Nov 12 15:32:39 UTC 2003


no it's not ok. they are text/plain, but mostly non-human-readable text.

what's more, is taht GNOME needs to associate files with their 
mime-types. which is why i have tons of un-extentioned files with 
different MIME-types ( torrent, HTML, txt, etc. ).

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Kevin Francis
<http://denial.loose-screws.com/>

Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time at band camp Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:52 pm, David Balazic wrote:
> 
>>telnet  torrent.dulug.duke.edu 80
>>HEAD /yarrow-binary-i386-iso.torrent HTTP/1.0
>>
>>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:51:47 GMT
>>Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
>>Last-Modified: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:42:48 GMT
>>ETag: "8003-24d8a-93dc7a00"
>>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>>Content-Length: 150922
>>Connection: close
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>--------------^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>
>>I disagree, it is not set up OK.
>>
>>application/x-bittorrent would be OK.
> 
> 
> my understanding is that the .torrent files are just plain text files  so it 
> is ok.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
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