On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Aug 25, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> Dave Fisher wrote: > >>> > >>> Has anyone inspected the MIME Type returned? If it is not a proper > >>> one for OXT then it is possible that IE8 is doing detection of the > >>> type. > >> > >> > >> I had different results than Dave's, and I concluded I see different > MIME > >> types depending on the mirror I get, so this depends on how each > individual > >> mirror used by SourceForge is configured. > >> > >> Example with repeated attempts (strings are in Italian but it's easy to > >> understand that the first and last one are right, the other mirrors are > >> not): > >> > > > > Good work. I'm copying Roberto on this, since it sounds like this > > will need a configuration change on the SourceForge side. > > > > Also, I wonder if it would be worth submitting a patch for Apache. It > > looks like they have the other content types used by OpenOffice, but > > not oxt files: > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types > > That makes sense although it won't help in this case as the mirror is: > > Server: nginx/1.0.14 > > Might need to submit the patch there as well. > That extension is hosted by a third party, I'm afraid I couldn't help much in this case, though. Roberto > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > -Rob > > > > > >> $ wget > http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> Posizione: > >> > http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> [segue] > >> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/vnd.openofficeorg.extension] > >> > >> $ wget > http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> Posizione: > >> > http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> [segue] > >> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/octet-stream] > >> > >> $ wget > http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> Posizione: > >> > http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> [segue] > >> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/octet-stream] > >> > >> $ wget > http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> Posizione: > >> > http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> [segue] > >> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/octet-stream] > >> > >> $ wget > http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> Posizione: > >> > http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> [segue] > >> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/vnd.openofficeorg.extension] > >> > >> MIME types are defined at the web server level, so the configuration for > >> each mirror is probably responsible for this difference. Then most > browsers > >> will get it right nevertheless, but some might be tricked by receiving > the > >> generic "octet-stream" type and interpreting it as a valid ZIP file > (which > >> is correct, but not the best thing to do of course) before checking if > it is > >> a valid OXT file as well. > >> > >> A simple test could be to ask people who report problems if they get > >> different behaviors with > >> > http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> (which serves OXT as octet/stream) and > >> > http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt > >> (which serves OXT as application/vnd.openofficeorg.extension). > >> > >> Regards, > >> Andrea. > > -- ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.
