RPM mime types

[Alexey Fadyushin]

According to the content of files /etc/mime.types and 
/usr/lib/rpm/magic.mime which come with RedHat Linux the mime type for 
RPM packages is 'application/x-rpm', so you are right in your definition.

Alexey Fadyushin
Brainbench MVP for Linux.
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Brian D. McGrew wrote:

>Good day,
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>I'm setting a new web server for our company and I'm posting our RPM
>files to it.  The server, Santronics WINServer is thinking that a .rpm
>file is a RealAudio package.  Of course this isn't correct since the
>client tries to open it with RealPlayer.
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>I quick google search didn't really return anything about a specific
>mime type for .rpm files so I'm wondering if anyone else has come across
>this before or if I should just define it as being 'application/x-rpm'
>and be done with it?
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>Thanks,
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>-brian
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>Brian D. McGrew { brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com }
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