MIME type setup for torrent files

[David Balazic]

> ----------
> From: 	Dennis Gilmore[SMTP:dennis at dgilmore.net]
> Reply To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Sent: 	12. november 2003 15:06
> To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: 	Re: MIME type setup for torrent files
> 
> Once upon a time at band camp Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:52 pm, David Balazic
> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> my understanding is that the .torrent files are just plain text files  so
> it 
> is ok.
> 
HTML are plain text files also ...
Actually torrent files are binary that looks like garbage when displayed as
text.

If the MIME type were set correctly, then when I would click on the torrent
links at
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/, the browser would know that they are torrent
files
and would start the bittorrent program. But now it thinks it is plain text
and displays
it , which is not very useful.

> Dennis
> 
> 
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