MIME type

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-02-04 09:33, Rogelio Bazán Reyes whipped out a trusty 
#2 pencil and scribbled:

> i suppose that my netscape web server is one them, because i´m denying 
> audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin.
> i will probe  with  application/x-rpm.
> thanx a lot
>
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>
> Piero Calucci wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:13, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:18, Rogelio Bazán Reyes wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Does anybody knows the MIME Type of the rpm packages?
>>>> This is because my proxy server is blocking the downloads of these 
>>>> packages, and i want to register the rpm´s as a permitted mime type to
>>>> download.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> The File Associations config tool for the Ximian Desktop indicates an
>>> RPM is application/x-rpm.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> There is a large number of (slightly broken) web servers that serve RPMs
>> w/ a mime type of audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
>
The problem of course, is that the MIME type is reported by the server, 
and can be anything.  I have seen several variations, most of which a 
human could guess were either RPM or Real Audio, but sometimes just 
text/plain! 

If you want to allow Linux packages but not allow Real Audio, you need a 
moderately smart filter that allows any MIME type with both 
"application" and "-rpm" but disallows "audio", and that will still 
block some actual RPMs that are improperly identified by the server.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. (James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791)

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