Rpm download
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Nov 30 21:57:19 UTC 2006
On Thursday 30 November 2006 16:31, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:50, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>>Compare that to a server properly configured for .rpm software
>>>packages:
>>>
>>>$ curl --head
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fed
>>>or a/RPMS/curl-7.15.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:48:48 GMT
>>>Server: Apache
>>>Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:21:52 GMT
>>>ETag: "107529d-3a07b-9ee00400"
>>>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>>>Content-Length: 237691
>>>Cache-Control: max-age=86400
>>>Expires: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:48:48 GMT
>>>Content-Type: application/x-rpm <----- right
>
>[...]
>
>> I see. Interesting is that the fedora page didn't even have
>> a "content-type' listing. But it usually works.
>
>Eh? It has a content-type header (which I highlighted as right).
>
Duh, and I'm going blind in my advanced years, sorry Todd.
>> What should the lacie site be returning as a content type?
>
>They should be returning application/x-rpm. At the very least, they
>should not be returning a real audio content-type. In apache you can
>easily change the content type returned for a file type on a
>per-directory or even a per-file basis. I have no clue whether the
>Windows IIS server can do this or not, but they should find a way to
>make it happen if they plan to serve up .rpm software.
True, OTOH, since Lacie is the sole src of such a utility, maybe we can be
a little forgiving of the winderz weenies (poor, uneducated chaps though
they may be) & use our right click workaround? It works nicely and I
appreciate their going to the trouble to make it linux compatible, so I
don't want to bite the hand that holds the offering. :)
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