Firefox opens rpms in new window on download

[Todd Zullinger]

rwhart wrote:
> I have tried it both with the 'save to' prompt and once direct to
> disk.  The attached file is a window capture using Gimp of the
> thunderbird window that opens when I 'click' on the rpm file to
> begin the download.  As you see, it thinks it is a Real Player file
> so there is an association file that I screwed up somewhere.

Firefox thinks it's a real player file because the site you're
downloading from says that's what it is (incorrectly).  You can check
this out with a tool like curl or wget:

$ curl -I http://www.iglooftp.com/dl/linux/IglooFTP-PRO-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:44:45 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:38:54 GMT
ETag: "3ed1ca-a1d2b-e10caf80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 662827
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Expires: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:44:45 GMT
Content-Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin

The proper fix would be to have the folks that run iglooftp.com
add the proper content-type for a .rpm file to their webserver config.
I think the easiest work-around is to just right click and use "Save
as" on the rpm file.

There was a thread on this topic for another site a month or so ago:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-November/msg06750.html

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