[Systems] wrong MIME type on mirrors

Aleksey Lim alsroot at activitycentral.org
Mon Feb 7 14:40:15 EST 2011


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 06:35:37PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote:
> MIME types served by ASLO are inconsistent.
> 
> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/sugar/activities/4193/physics-3.xo
> - text/plain
> http://mirrors.rit.edu/sugarlabs/activities/4193/physics-3.xo -
> application/octet-stream
> 
> These were tested using wget.
> 
> We should do an audit of all ASLO mirrors to make sure they're using
> the correct MIME types for .xo files.  In the ibiblio case, it causes
> Safari to display the bundle as plain text.  This is certainly going
> to confuse users who are checking out ASLO from non-Sugar systems.
> 
> Further, I think we should try and add a warning to the Download link
> if the detected browser is not Browse.  It should just say that to use
> the file, you need to have Sugar, and provide a link to the Get Sugar
> page.

Ping..

Looks like it is still actual, at least for ibiblio.
Any ideas how it might be fixed?

> 
> Thanks,
> Wade
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Aleksey


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