MIME type setup for torrent files

David Balazic david.balazic at hermes.si
Wed Nov 12 13:52:31 UTC 2003


telnet  torrent.dulug.duke.edu 80
HEAD /yarrow-binary-i386-iso.torrent HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:51:47 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
Last-Modified: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:42:48 GMT
ETag: "8003-24d8a-93dc7a00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 150922
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
--------------^^^^^^^^^^


I disagree, it is not set up OK.

application/x-bittorrent would be OK.

Regards,
David Balazic


> ----------
> From: 	Linux at DUKE Admin[SMTP:admin at linux.duke.edu]
> Sent: 	12. november 2003 14:43
> To: 	David Balazic
> Cc: 	Linux at DUKE Admin
> Subject: 	Re: MIME type setup for torrent files
> 
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 06:34, David Balazic wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > The server for URL http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
> > is not set up correctly for torrent file types.
> > It sends the with the MIME type text/plain instead of
> > application/x-bittorrent.
> > 
> > Please fix this, as it makes using the torrent link hard.
> 
> 16TB of files were downloaded via that tracker.
> 
> I think the server is setup ok.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 





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