konqueror open some links with multimedia composant

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 29 August 2003 08:35, Christian Mueller wrote:
> Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 03:19 schrieb James Richard Tyrer:
> > imr wrote:
> > > On Friday 29 August 2003 00:44, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > > yes, it does.
> > > But is it the regular behavior?
> >
> > Yes, it has been that way -- the way browsers work -- since Netscape.
> >
> > Konqueror may still have a few bugs in it -- it may require the
> > <Shift> when it really should figure it out for itself.
> >
> > > Why is it calling the multimedia part?
> >
> > If the file has a MIME type link (a file association), then Konqueror
> > will use it.
>
> Yes.
> I checked the link
> http://registry.gimp.org/file/slime.scm?action=download&id=256
> It's a gimp script, but the web server sets the HTTP header
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>
> On my system application/octet-stream is associated with
> KMPlayer, and set to use it as external viewer.  And that's
> what happens here.
>
> The Content-Type header should  be text/plain instead or something
> but that's the web server's fault.

Maybe but I think KMPlayer shouldn't be associated with 
application/octet-stream

I would expect that application/octet-stream always triggers a save to 
disk action.

Cheers,
Kevin

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