Hi Cor, *, On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Cor Nouws <[email protected]> wrote: > webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote (11-11-11 01:25) >> >> I noticed today, while working with a 32-bit DEB based server, that when >> I go to the download page for 3.4.4, the page chooses 32-bit RPM instead >> of the 32-bit DEB version. It happened with Ubuntu 11.04 and Mint 11. > > This behaviour is as you may expect it from the website. > Selecting the type of Linux package is what you have to do.
Well - yes. It defaults to RPM unless it can tell from the browser's identification string that it is ubuntu or debian. As those are the only ones who did alter the user-agent string. > There has been some discussion on this is the past. I also once had the idea > that it was new, that I had to do that choice myself. People convinced me > that I must have been confused ;-) Well, not confused just that the broswer's response doesn't give a hint anymore. The detection uses: navigator.platform for the OS and 32bit vs 64bit detection navigator.userAgent for trying to guess the package format (if it contains *buntu, debian, iceweasel → deb, otherwise rpm) navigator.language / navigator.userLanguage for getting the language. If you know a way on how to detect debian/ubuntu more reliably, don't hesitate to share your knowledge :-) You can check on this page what the values your browser reports are: http://jsfiddle.net/ZZRSk/embedded/result/ If you think that any info can be used to derive "ah, this is a deb-user", then please share the results :-) ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
