Re: downloads always set to filetype F80

The following bytes were arranged on 26 Feb 2014 by John Rickman Iyonix :

> Rob Kendrick wrote
>
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:56:41PM +0000, John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
> >>
> >> NetSurf downloads always set filetype of &F80 (XML?) and I have to
> >> retype to ZIP, PDF etc as appropriate.
> >>
> >> Is this just happening on my machine?
>
> > Always? From everywhere? For every file type?
>
> > From this URL - http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/software/float/
>
> On RISC OS RaspBerry Pi the file, "float036.zip" is downloaded and
> saved as "float036" and given a filetype of &F80.
> (NS #1702)
>
> On the Iyonix the .zip suffix is retained but the file type is still
> set to &F80.
> (NS #1740)

Check your MimeMap file: !Boot.Resources.!Internet.files.MimeMap

There is a known bug in the interpretation of these files in RISC OS 5
which causes some types of wildcards to be inappropriately applied.
>From memory, the guilty line should appear somewhere near the end, and
start with something like "*/xml". If this line is present on a RO5
computer, the XML filetype will be applied far more widely than one
might expect. Deleting it from the MimeMaps on my computers fixed this
problem.

I don't remember exactly how MimeMap works, so you might have to reset
to apply the changes.

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