[kubuntu-users] Konqueror and mimetypes

[Art Alexion]

On Friday 24 March 2006 06:46, Nicolas Ouellette wrote:
> Le 24 Mars 2006 06:36, Jonathan Riddell a écrit :
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:32:31AM -0500, Nicolas Ouellette wrote:
> > > Hi. Since I've upgraded to KDE 3.5.1 on Breezy, I have this problem
> > > when donwloading certain type of files with Konqueror. For example,
> > > when I click on a link to download either a *.deb or *.skz (at this
> > > time, these are the two mimetypes for which I know Konqi behave this
> > > way), Konqueror doesn't start a dowload. Instead, it displays the file
> > > in binary format. In consequence, I have to load Firefox and start the
> > > download...
> >
> > Do you have an example URL?
> >
> > Jonathan
>
> Yes. I have two...
>
> http://liquidweather.net/downloads.html (clck on any mirror)
>
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6384 (click on the
> download link)

I always thought this was an issue of the http server configuration, not the 
local browser configuration.  As evidence, this seems to happen with some 
(presumably misconfigured) sites and not other (properly configured) ones.
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