On Tuesday 14 November 2006 00:40, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

On 2006-11-14 02:22, Gustavo Zapico @ NETAVANZA wrote:

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Hi

I have a problem with RPM. Anytime i try to download an RPM form Firefox the borwser tries to use Real Player to play rpm files. Where i could change this?

This is happening because you have installed the Realplayer plug-in and those files have the same extension as an RPM. RPM packages have a distinct MIME type, but if the browser doesn't recognize it, then it uses the file extension to decide how to handle it.

When this happens, the problem is usually that the server did not include the MIME type in the HTTP response headers, forcing the browser to make a suffix-based decision. Sometimes it can be helpful to inform the administrator of the server in question so they can update their server's MIME type mappings.

In Seamonkey/Mozilla:

Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Helper Applications, click New Type.

Enter MIME Type application/x-rpm and extension rpm, select the action you want, click OK to create the file type, and OK to save the preferences.

This will work, but when the browser is forced to base a dispensation decision on the file name suffix you cannot have to treatments for a given suffix, so if a RealPlayer ".rpm" stream comes along, it will get saved as a download. And URLs that don't actually have a suffix can't behandled. The only truly effective way is to get the server to supply a MIME type. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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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Hi, ,------ | > > Hi | > > | > > I have a problem with RPM. Anytime i try to download an RPM form Firefox | > > the borwser tries to use Real Player to play rpm files. Where i could | > > change this? `------ This happened to me 3 days ago out of the blue. Was not aware that I had altered anything. Curious. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hi, Please, to remove my email of the list. Thank you Cauã. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcus Rueckert" To: "Francesco Scaglioni" Cc: ; Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Firefox & RPM

On 2006-11-15 11:32:45 +0000, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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,------ | > > Hi | > > | > > I have a problem with RPM. Anytime i try to download an RPM form Firefox | > > the borwser tries to use Real Player to play rpm files. Where i could | > > change this? `------

This happened to me 3 days ago out of the blue. Was not aware that I had altered anything. Curious.

the server tells your browser the file is of the mimetype real media and firefox acts accordingly.

use right click -> save as

or uninstall helix/real player

darix

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Francesco, On Wednesday 15 November 2006 03:32, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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| > > Hi | > > | > > I have a problem with RPM. Anytime i try to download an RPM | > > form Firefox the borwser tries to use Real Player to play rpm | > > files. Where i could change this?

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This happened to me 3 days ago out of the blue. Was not aware that I had altered anything. Curious.

Could you give the URL that caused the problem? Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

PS : I have no action associated with rpm files in firefox.

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You are posting your messages using a Mac from which I can assume that you are using Firefox configured for a Mac and therefore I suggest you ask for help in a Mac help list. Cheers. -- If you really want to know, you won't ask me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 06:39, Basil Chupin wrote:

Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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PS : I have no action associated with rpm files in firefox.

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You are posting your messages using a Mac from which I can assume that you are using Firefox configured for a Mac and therefore I suggest you ask for help in a Mac help list.

Here's the X-Mailer header from the post to which you replied: X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) It appears Francesco is using an Emac-based mail client. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org