mime type conflicts

[David Jansen]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:01:13AM +1000, Matt H. wrote:
> application/x-rpm is set to save files to disk. I deleted the entry for
> audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin, but it didn't have any effect. I've just
> noticed the following: Clicking for example any .rpm in the following link
> will correctly open the save as dialog box-
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/ However,
> clicking this link will give me a Helix logo screen as it tries to run it
> as an RealPlayer plugin Metafile.  
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/1/gstreamer-plugins/gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.6.3-3.1.fr.i386.rpm
> Can anyone reproduce this? I'm not sure how to work around this other than
> deleting the Helix plugin. Why are some .rpm's being interpreted as
> "application/x-rpm" and yet some as "audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"? 

It's may be server-side thing. Download.fedora.us is (of course) configured
to serve rpm files with the application/x-rpm MIME-type, but many other
servers are not, and they may use the audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin type
when encountering a .rpm extension.

David Jansen