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....
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
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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/...
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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