[WBEL-devel] Ok, to try to sort out the confusion!

[Johnny Hughes]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 22:41, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 20:56, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I did have a problem with the www.linuxlobbyist.net torrent link ... it
> > seems It showed the torrent file in my browser instead of asking me if I
> > wanted to open it with bittorent...If anyone else has that problem, do
> > it like this instead (this command is all one line):
> 
>   Oops, yeah, that's probably my fault.  Mime times on Unix/Linux are
> kind of like network proxies: historically you needed to set it
> differently for each application.  There's no standard central place to
> set either so that everything looks at the same setting.  At least, that
> was my experience in the past, and I kind of gave up on touching mime
> types altogether a while ago.
>   If there's any demand to have it fixed, could someone point me to the
> right line to add to the right file?  Thanks.

Here is how to do it with apache:

http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/61.html