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