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General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: maro on May 05, 2011, 02:53:40 AM

Title: Suggestion: Change the Content-Type for *.info, *.list, and *.dep files
Post by: maro on May 05, 2011, 02:53:40 AM
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'.
Title: Re: Suggestion: Change the Content-Type for *.info, *.list, and *.dep files
Post by: gutmensch on May 05, 2011, 03:24:17 AM
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.
Title: Re: Suggestion: Change the Content-Type for *.info, *.list, and *.dep files
Post by: bmarkus on May 05, 2011, 03:33:28 AM
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.
Title: Re: Suggestion: Change the Content-Type for *.info, *.list, and *.dep files
Post by: gutmensch on May 05, 2011, 04:43:38 AM
that's right, updates page is not ajax'ed atm, it's on my todo list :)