Suppressing Real Player on RPM downloads

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Dec 2 20:48:08 UTC 2005


Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>> And email the Web admin for the site to get their server configured to
>>> correct there configuration.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> How is this the fault of the Web admin?  Are you claiming that the
>> administrators for the Fedora Core servers don't know any better?
> 
> 
> The server is probably sending this mime type for .rpm files
> 
> audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin     rpm
> 
> instead of
> 
> application/rpm      rpm
> 
> 

Thanks, I couldn't remember off of the top of my head.  I don't admin 
www servers but have come across the problem many times.

The server tells the browser the type of application to use and I 
think that the browser can be configured to override this to some 
degree but I have never succeeded.




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