what is wrong with my konqueror/kmail settings?

[Derek Broughton]

Donatas G. wrote:

> On Friday 18 January 2008 13:16:06 Daniel Pittman rašė:
>> "Donatas G." <dgvirtual at akl.lt> writes:
>> > when I click a link with a deb, like this one, in my mail (kmail)
>> > window:
>> > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward_0.4.9gutsy1-1_i386.deb
>> >
>> > I get the binary file opened within Konqueror window with this warning
>> > message popping up:
>> >
>> > The file
>> > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward_0.4.9gutsy1-1_i386.deb is a
>> > binary, saving it will result in a corrupt file.
>> >
>> > All I intend is to get the file to download...
>> >
>> > Could somebody explain, what is wrong with my settings?
>>
>> Nothing; the server is wrong: 

Yes (maybe) and no.  

>> it tells the web browser that file 
>> contains plain text, not binary data.  As a result Konqueror does the
>> right thing and displays it -- but warns you about the problem.

Yes, the server should report it as application/x-deb mimetype, but
konqueror is quite capable of handling files without proper mimetypes based
on file suffix.  I'm not sure this wasn't reported properly - my network's
too slow to want to check; what I can see is that my own mirror has no
definition for application/x-deb, but konqueror still treats them a such.
Unfortunately, Kubuntu doesn't automatically come with a way to handle
packages from the web but you can always install gdebi-kde to fix it.
-- 
derek