rpm being treated as [audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin]

[Vikram Goyal]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk>
Sent: Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 04:54:45PM +0200
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: rpm being treated as [audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin]


> Paul Howarth wrote:
> >Vikram Goyal wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I am using fc4. There's this peculiar problem that firefox and wget
> >>treat rpm files as [audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin].
> >>
> >>Well, I searched /etc/mime.types but found entry for this as hashed.
> >>
> >>So, where else should i look to correct this setting.
> >
> >
> >The problem is on the server that you are getting the .rpm files from, 
> >not your browser. I don't think there's much you can do about it if the 
> >server's not under your control, unless you configure your browser/wget 
> >to treat this MIME type the way you want it to treat RPMs.
> 
> I think you're wrong. The reason is the helix realplayer plugin.
> 
> Look at about:plugins and see if it exists there.
> 
> Mogens
> 

Hello Mogens,

Yes, you are right. The real player plugin is installed. I was myself
wondering about server settings, how it could affect the browser.
Anyways, how may i change the settings of this plugin???

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