[maemo-users] Single-click install file for OS2007

[From: Michael Stepanov]

Hi Marius,

Thanks for your replay. I added that mime type and it's solved the problem.
Thanks again!

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:36:00PM +0300, Michael Stepanov wrote:
> > > I created a single-click install files for bora, chinook and diablo and
> put
> > > them on the web page - http://diapub.com/~michael/<http://diapub.com/%7Emichael/>.
> They work fine under
> > > OS2008. But with OS2007 there is a problem.  Instead of offer save or
> run
> > > that file it shows its content. Any ideas how to fix that?
> >
> > IIRC you need to make your web server serve those files with the correct
> > Content-Type, instead of the generic application/octet-stream.
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't remember the correct one, couldn't find it on
> > maemo.org after searching for 5 minutes, and experiment shows
> > maemo.org's application catalog itself serves .install files as
> > "text/html".  Does that mean maemo.org's catalog is broken for OS2007
> > users, or that I'm wrong about my content-type assumptions?
>
> Duh, I'd forgotten I'm serving .install files from my website
> (http://mg.pov.lt/770) since they were first introduced as an
> unsupported feature.  Here's my .htaccess file:
>
>  AddType application/x-install-instructions .install
>
> Marius Gedminas
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Cheers,
Michael
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