Accessing pureftpd using Firefox
I have setup a server running pureftpd and all is fine when uploading and downloading using Internet Explorer. However, when I click on a file that should start to download using Firefox a window opens up and it looks like Realplayer is trying to start or something like that. I can't figure out what is going on. I don't even know if it is a Firefox issue of pureftpd. If anyone has run into this problem, how did you correct it? Thanks as always, Aaron
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:24, Aaron Bridge wrote:
I have setup a server running pureftpd and all is fine when uploading and downloading using Internet Explorer. However, when I click on a file that should start to download using Firefox a window opens up and it looks like Realplayer is trying to start or something like that. I can't figure out what is going on. I don't even know if it is a Firefox issue of pureftpd. If anyone has run into this problem, how did you correct it?
Hi Aaron, What happens if you right-click and select 'Save link as...'? - Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/
Carl E. Hartung wrote:
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:24, Aaron Bridge wrote:
I have setup a server running pureftpd and all is fine when uploading and downloading using Internet Explorer. However, when I click on a file that should start to download using Firefox a window opens up and it looks like Realplayer is trying to start or something like that. I can't figure out what is going on. I don't even know if it is a Firefox issue of pureftpd. If anyone has run into this problem, how did you correct it?
Hi Aaron,
What happens if you right-click and select 'Save link as...'?
- Carl
It looks like it will let me save to my desktop, but when I click save the Firefox download manger opens with the options to Open or Cancel. It doesn't actually download the file.
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:59, Aaron Bridge wrote:
It looks like it will let me save to my desktop, but when I click save the Firefox download manger opens with the options to Open or Cancel. It doesn't actually download the file.
Try Edit->Preferences and click on the Downloads icon. There are some settings there to experiment with. I usually set it to "Ask me where to save every file." It's more convenient (to me, anyway.) You might also need to adjust the file types in the lower panel there, too, to solve the RealPlayer thing. - Carl -- ____________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/
Aaron Bridge wrote:
I have setup a server running pureftpd and all is fine when uploading and downloading using Internet Explorer. However, when I click on a file that should start to download using Firefox a window opens up and it looks like Realplayer is trying to start or something like that. I can't figure out what is going on. I don't even know if it is a Firefox issue of pureftpd. If anyone has run into this problem, how did you correct it?
Would these be .rpm files? .rpm is also a Real extension, "realplayer media" and is often installed either as a helper application or plugin. Check about:plugins (menu bar, Help/About Plug-ins) to see if you have a plugin that takes a .rpm extension, and if not, look in Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Helper Applications. I think the file type is something like x/realmedia.
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Aaron Bridge wrote:
I have setup a server running pureftpd and all is fine when uploading and downloading using Internet Explorer. However, when I click on a file that should start to download using Firefox a window opens up and it looks like Realplayer is trying to start or something like that. I can't figure out what is going on. I don't even know if it is a Firefox issue of pureftpd. If anyone has run into this problem, how did you correct it?
Would these be .rpm files? .rpm is also a Real extension, "realplayer media" and is often installed either as a helper application or plugin.
Check about:plugins (menu bar, Help/About Plug-ins) to see if you have a plugin that takes a .rpm extension, and if not, look in Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Helper Applications. I think the file type is something like x/realmedia.
Yes it is an .rpm file I am talking about. Under plugins there isn't a reference to .rpm and realplayer. The only plugin for realplayer referes to .ram
Aaron Bridge wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Aaron Bridge wrote:
I have setup a server running pureftpd and all is fine when uploading and downloading using Internet Explorer. However, when I click on a file that should start to download using Firefox a window opens up and it looks like Realplayer is trying to start or something like that. I can't figure out what is going on. I don't even know if it is a Firefox issue of pureftpd. If anyone has run into this problem, how did you correct it?
Would these be .rpm files? .rpm is also a Real extension, "realplayer media" and is often installed either as a helper application or plugin.
Check about:plugins (menu bar, Help/About Plug-ins) to see if you have a plugin that takes a .rpm extension, and if not, look in Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Helper Applications. I think the file type is something like x/realmedia.
Yes it is an .rpm file I am talking about. Under plugins there isn't a reference to .rpm and realplayer. The only plugin for realplayer referes to .ram
This is looking more like a problem with Firefox running under Windows. Because when I use Novell Linux Desktop and Firefox it works as expected. I will research more to do with Firefox running under Windows. Thank you for your help, Aaron
Aaron Bridge wrote:
Yes it is an .rpm file I am talking about. Under plugins there isn't a reference to .rpm and realplayer. The only plugin for realplayer referes to .ram
The only way realplayer is going to be loaded for a .rpm file is if the browser is configured to use realplayer when a .rpm is accessed. That requires either a plugin or a helper application configuration. There are no other ways. Since the realplayer plugin isn't being fired up, realplayer itself has to be being run as a helper application. This stuff is handled in Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Helper Applications. That information is all stored in ~/.mozilla/<user>/<profile>/mimeTypes.rdf. If you grep that file for "rpm" I am sure you will find it is there. Don't edit the file yourself, unless you really know what you are doing; use the Preferences settings menus instead. BTW, I do not need a personal copy of your messages. thx.
Darryl, On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:08, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Aaron Bridge wrote:
Yes it is an .rpm file I am talking about. Under plugins there isn't a reference to .rpm and realplayer. The only plugin for realplayer referes to .ram
The only way realplayer is going to be loaded for a .rpm file is if the browser is configured to use realplayer when a .rpm is accessed. That requires either a plugin or a helper application configuration. There are no other ways.
That's not the whole story. It can happen when the server does not have a MIME association for the file it's sending or if its MIME type mapping is erroneous or relies solely on the file's suffix (in which case it will be wrong for one of the two utterly different kinds of files that routinely bear the suffix ".rpm"--Redhat Package Manager and Real Player Metafile). When the server does not include a MIME type, the browser is forced to decide on a dispensation for the data stream. Browsers typically rely on file name suffixes alone to do this (though Konqueror may try to use the contents of the stream to make the determination).
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Randall Schulz
Darryl, Aaron, On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:09, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Darryl,
On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:08, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Aaron Bridge wrote:
Yes it is an .rpm file I am talking about. Under plugins there isn't a reference to .rpm and realplayer. The only plugin for realplayer referes to .ram
The only way realplayer is going to be loaded for a .rpm file is if the browser is configured to use realplayer when a .rpm is accessed. That requires either a plugin or a helper application configuration. There are no other ways.
That's not the whole story.
It can happen when the server does not have a MIME association for the file it's sending or if its MIME type mapping is erroneous or relies solely on the file's suffix (in which case it will be wrong for one of the two utterly different kinds of files that routinely bear the suffix ".rpm"--Redhat Package Manager and Real Player Metafile).
When the server does not include a MIME type, the browser is forced to decide on a dispensation for the data stream. Browsers typically rely on file name suffixes alone to do this (though Konqueror may try to use the contents of the stream to make the determination).
And now comes the D'Oh! / duh! moment... Aaron was talking about FTP, a protocol that does not include any file typing information such as a MIME type. Thus when retrieving a file by FTP, the burden of determining a dispensation for the file rests entirely on the client retrieving it and that determination must be made based on the suffix or on the file content. I'm pretty sure neither Mozilla nor Firefox look at the contents being retrieve and rely solely on the file name suffix. So for files retrieve via FTP you're going to have to tell your Firefox whether a ".rpm" file is for RealPlayer or an RPM package file. Randall Schulz
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