On Tuesday 14 November 2006 08:56, Juergen Weigert wrote:
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.rpm files should be downlaoded by the browser, then the 'file' utility can be easily used to see if this is an installable software package, or a link to streaming media.
That's overly manual, is it not? Computers should not require humans to tell them what kind of data they have in hand, at least not in normal operating scenarios.
.rpm files for realplayer are usually only a few lines of plain text. They do not contain the video stream itself.
The question is not what kind of bytes are in the resource retrieved, but rather how to handle them. Redhat Package Manager RPM files are usually to be downloaded, but I think Konqueror can handle them via a plug-in of some sort. RealPlayer's ".rpm" files can be handled by browser plug-ins. Thus, the browser needs to know the _type_ of the resource in order to handle it properly. Inference of type based on name suffix is ambiguous, hence the problem.
cheers, Jw.
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