Thanks for the detective work. I'm a little surprised all the mirrors aren't configured the same.
Maybe it should be a little easier to figure out how to contact the maintainers of a particular site. At the bottom of the front page are links to 2 organization; picking the most specific led to a general welcome page. It had a contact llink at the bottom, which led to a page that had an IT contact on it, cn...@berkeley.edu. I'll try sending it there with a cc to c...@r-project.org, which I found chasing another set of links. Ross ________________________________________ From: Jeroen Ooms [jeroeno...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 8:58 PM To: Boylan, Ross Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Non-webby links on Windows web page This caused by the Berkeley web server setting strange content-types. It is probably more suitable to report this to the Berkeley mirror admin or cran maintainers. > library(httr) > GET("http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base/README.R-3.1.2")$headers["content-type"] $`content-type` [1] "application/x-troff-man" > GET("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/README.R-3.1.2")$headers["content-type"] $`content-type` [1] "text/plain" On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Boylan, Ross <ross.boy...@ucsf.edu> wrote: > On the Windows download page the second link is "Installation and other > instructions" http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base/README.R-3.1.2. > Clicking on this gets me a "download or open as" dialogue rather than a page > of text. > > I think something like this happened a few years ago, and the problem was the > MIME type of the link. > > It would be nice to fix. > > Thanks. > Ross Boylan > > P.S. I was using http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ and FF 33.1 on Win 7. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel