rpm files on firefox/FC3

[Globe Trotter]

Hi Emily,

Thanks for your detailed information, and you are absolutely right: it only
happens with some servers.

best wishes!
globe...

--- Emily Brantley <located at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:51 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: 
> > I have a strange problem -- when i click to download RPM files, instead of
> > going to install package, I get the Realplayer all going....anyone know how
> to
> > work around this, beyond saving the file and installing?
> > 
> > Thanks and best wishes!
> > 
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> 
> this happens only with some servers.  the problem is that particular
> server hasn't sent the right content-type header during the HTTP
> session.  given an RPM package to send, an unaware web server can only
> guess at what an RPM is, and if it doesn't know about Red Hat, it
> guesses it's a Real Player Media file and tells your browser so (using
> the MIME type "audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin").
> 
> it's really just a matter of adding a single directive ("AddType
> application/octet-stream .rpm") to either the global config file
> httpd.conf or to .htaccess in the same directory as the packages.  (this
> all assumes apache as the web server.)  try contacting the webmaster of
> the server you got the package from and informing them about this.
> 
> (sometimes servers are configured to give the MIME type "application/x-
> redhat-package-manager" or "application/x-rpm", and while browsers
> usually don't know what that means, they just treat it as an octet-
> stream (unknown binary) and download it as such.  i suggest the generic
> octet-stream because it's official, but using one of the unofficial
> types will let browsers tell it apart from other types (so they can know
> to run "Install Package" on it))
> -- 
> Emily Brantley <located at bellsouth.net>
> 

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