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