MIME type setup for torrent files

[Rob Park]

Elliott Wilcoxon wrote:
> They are text files, but a text/plain MIME type doesn't let the computer 
> downloading know that it's a BITTORRENT text file, so it treats it like 
> a text file, and not a Bittorrent file.  I.e. the server is not 
> configured properly to serve torrents.
> 
> This happens often to me whilst using various BT sites.  Workaround is 
> to save the file to disk, then point BT to it using --responsefile.

I agree, it's very annoying when I visit a site and I have to download 
the .torrent file then launch it manually. It's better when the server 
sets the mimetype to application/x-bittorrent, then my browser knows to 
just open bittorrent on the file, with only a single click on my part.

It's just more convenient that way.