Suggestion: Change the Content-Type for *.info, *.list, and *.dep files

[maro]

I was wondering whether it would be possible to change the HTTP Content-Type of the *.info, *.list, and *.dep files in the repository from 'application/octet-stream' to something that is more easily "readable" in any odd browser (e.g. 'text/plain'). This way the users of the "index_nojs.html" version of the file extension file list would also get to read the files more "directly".

Furthermore I wonder whether the same should apply to the more "hidden" text files like *.tree, 'info.lst', 'mirrors.lst', and 'sizelist'.

[gutmensch]

unfortunately it's not possible atm - ibiblio now runs on lighty and doesn't allow user based content type changing. that's one reason why there's a js version. the other one is, that the js repo page is only 30% of the size of the nojs one (350K vs. 1.1M), so - in case you have a recent browser, which speeds up js - it should also load faster.

[bmarkus]

Link to .info file is shown on 'Recently updated' page also. Clicking on the link in most browsers starts download or initiate question for application opening. There are no JAVA.

[gutmensch]

that's right, updates page is not ajax'ed atm, it's on my todo list