problem with ircam.fr mirror and OSX+PPC+Firefox

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problem with ircam.fr mirror and OSX+PPC+Firefox

Postby BiQ » 17 Apr 2008 07:38

Hi,

this might sound like a little problem (and for me, it seems now history since I got the 0.8.6f from u-strasbg.fr, but you still might want to know that Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (ppc) did not understand to download the player. Instead it tried to open the file as text in browser window. This problem did not happen with u-strasbg.fr mirror, so I strongly suspect that ircam.fr is offering the wrong mime-type for the file.

(Of course, had I simply waited for Firefox to open the whole file and then saved the file from browser, I would have got the .dmg I wanted. But opening a >10M binary file as text tends to clog up Firefox a bit...)

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Re: problem with ircam.fr mirror and OSX+PPC+Firefox

Postby dionoea » 22 Apr 2008 14:50

Thanks for the info. Could you tell me what mime type your firefox reports for the file?
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