Suppressing Real Player on RPM downloads
Patrick Boutilier
boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Fri Dec 2 19:49:05 UTC 2005
Kam Leo wrote:
<snip>
>> And email the Web admin for the site to get their server configured to
>> correct there configuration.
>>
>>
>
> How is this the fault of the Web admin? Are you claiming that the
> administrators for the Fedora Core servers don't know any better?
The server is probably sending this mime type for .rpm files
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm
instead of
application/rpm rpm
>
> The fault lies in the obsolete association of rpm files with
> RealPlayer. This association is provided by one of the multimedia
> plugins (not Helix or Realplayer) for the web browser. You can find
> out which plugin is at fault by typing "about:plugins" in Firefox's
> address bar and looking for the application associate with rpm.
>
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