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michael at stepanoff

Aug 24, 2008, 12:36 PM

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Single-click install file for OS2007

Hi,

I created a single-click install files for bora, chinook and diablo and put
them on the web page - http://diapub.com/~michael/. 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?

TIA
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Cheers,
Michael

marius at pov

Aug 24, 2008, 2:32 PM

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Re: Single-click install file for OS2007 [In reply to]

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/. 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?

Marius Gedminas
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marius at pov

Aug 24, 2008, 2:36 PM

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Re: Single-click install file for OS2007 [In reply to]

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/. 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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peter at petertheplumber

Aug 24, 2008, 3:03 PM

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Re: Single-click install file for OS2007 [In reply to]

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 17:36 -0400, Marius Gedminas 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/. 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?

I don't know about that but I am getting a lot of errors trying to
install the 2008 apps via the one click.

>
> 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
>

And it works with what you have for 2008.

Thanks!!
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Peter Bart <peter[at]petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net

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michael at stepanoff

Aug 25, 2008, 4:20 AM

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Re: Single-click install file for OS2007 [In reply to]

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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