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On Aug 25, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pescetti@apache.org> =
wrote:
>> Dave Fisher wrote:
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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):
>>=20
>=20
> Good work.  I'm copying Roberto on this, since it sounds like this
> will need a configuration change on the SourceForge side.
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> 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

>=20
> -Rob
>=20
>=20
>> $ wget =
http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt
>> Posizione:
>> =
http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfim=
port.oxt
>> [segue]
>> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/vnd.openofficeorg.extension]
>>=20
>> $ wget =
http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt
>> Posizione:
>> =
http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimp=
ort.oxt
>> [segue]
>> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/octet-stream]
>>=20
>> $ wget =
http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt
>> Posizione:
>> =
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfi=
mport.oxt
>> [segue]
>> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/octet-stream]
>>=20
>> $ wget =
http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt
>> Posizione:
>> =
http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfimpo=
rt.oxt
>> [segue]
>> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/octet-stream]
>>=20
>> $ wget =
http://extensions.openoffice.org/e-files/874/29/oracle-pdfimport.oxt
>> Posizione:
>> =
http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfi=
mport.oxt
>> [segue]
>> Lunghezza: 4899523 (4,7M) [application/vnd.openofficeorg.extension]
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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-pdfimp=
ort.oxt
>> (which serves OXT as octet/stream) and
>> =
http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aoo-extensions/874/29/oracle-pdfi=
mport.oxt
>> (which serves OXT as application/vnd.openofficeorg.extension).
>>=20
>> Regards,
>>  Andrea.