Fedora 4 Firefox strange behaviour:

[Chris Northwood]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of akonstam at trinity.edu
> Sent: 25 September 2005 21:26
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Fedora 4 Firefox strange behaviour:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:55:57AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > At 1:17 PM +0100 9/25/05, Mirco Scara wrote:
> > >Hello everybody,
> > >
> > >I tried to download rpm packages several times from several different
> > >websites such as nrpms or adobe.com and others using Firefox 1.0.6 but
> > >when I click on to the rpm link which should usually start the download
> > >instead firefox attempts to open and download the file using Real
> > >Player.
> > >Is there any particular settings I can reset to change this behaviour?
> >
> > The problem is at the other end.  It is possible to remove any
> RealPlayer
> > stuff from your end, and never play any more RealPlayer Movies (rpm), or
> > you can right-click on the link and choose "Save Link As".
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
> >       '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> >
> > --
> This method does not work with Adobe and the download of AdobeReader.
> What you are presented with is not a link and no Save Link is displayed
> when you right click on the Download button. It is infuriating to say
> he least.
> -------------------------------------------
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: (210)-999-7484

As Tony correctly stated, the problem is not with your configuration
(indeed, it is behaving properly), but with the web server sending the wrong
MIME type. Perhaps you could copy the link and wget the RPM or something as
a workaround?

Chris Northwood.