Suppressing Real Player on RPM downloads

[Patrick Boutilier]

Kam Leo wrote:
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>> And email the Web admin for the site to get their server configured to
>> correct there configuration.
>>
>>
> 
> How is this the fault of the Web admin?  Are you claiming that the
> administrators for the Fedora Core servers don't know any better?

The server is probably sending this mime type for .rpm files

audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin     rpm

instead of

application/rpm      rpm


> 
> The fault lies in the obsolete association of rpm files with
> RealPlayer.  This association is provided by one of the multimedia
> plugins (not Helix or Realplayer) for the web browser.  You can find
> out which plugin is at fault by typing "about:plugins" in Firefox's
> address bar and looking for the application associate with rpm.
>