Rpm download

[Todd Zullinger]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 09:37, Todd Zullinger wrote:
[...]
>>The lightscribe.com site has an incorrected mime-type set for .rpm
>>files (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin), at least for .rpm files as most
>>of us are used to them.  You can use wget to download it:
>>
> That's not lacies mistake

Yes, it is their mistake.  They are returning the wrong mime-type.
See for yourself with curl:

$ curl --head http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/downloads/lightscribe-1.4.124.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 489040
Content-Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin       <----- wrong
Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:20:20 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "05a6c51bcfec61:79d"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:41:09 GMT

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/Fedora/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

> its the browsers mimetype associations and can be fixed if one is
> determined to.

You wouldn't be fixing it so much as rigging it if you forced all
content with the mime-type audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin to be
downloaded or worse yet, sent to some tool that is expecting an rpm
package.  What if you want to view an actual Real Audio .rpm?  The
mime-type should be set properly by the web server to give the best
indication to the browser of what it should be doing with the content.

> Its also very very commonly made, and can be worked around by right 
> clicking and choosing the save as option from the pop-up.

In this case that's difficult do to the lightscribe site not providing
a direct link to the file but instead making the user click "I Agree"
to a popup window and then redirecting to the (wrongly labelled) .rpm
file.

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