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. 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.
