Re: default media player

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus gnome org>]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 13:21 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> > Great, could you also make sure the Helix package, even when its moved
> > to extras, do not handle 'rpm' files in Firefox. I hate it when I try to
> > download stuff and instead get a helix player started in the browser.
> 
> I think here Helix is not guilty, the problem is happen when the web 
> server is badly configured and use a wrong MIME type 
> (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin), so Firefox consider the file being 
> multimedia and launch the default player.

Could very well be that Apache by default assumes rpm is a Helix/Real
file format. But considering that I personally or anyone I ever talked
have never ever seen a Real stream using the .rpm extension I think
making the Real player plugin not register itself as handling that
extension a good solution. Of course Red Hat (being a RPM based distro)
should probably also change the default association for .rpm on the
bundled Apache version too.

Christian