[Sshkeychain-developers] Download URL MIME type

[Jonathan R. <jon...@fi...>]

As William Yardley mentioned, the download URL opens directly in some 
(apparently not Safari) browser windows:
<URL:http://sshkeychain.sourceforge.net/SSHKeychain.dmg>

This happens because the MIME type give by the HTTP server is wrong; the 
browser is behaving correctly. The server says it's "text/plain" but it 
should be "application/x-apple-diskimage". It seems that Safari, like 
Internet Explorer treats some URLs differently from others based only 
the ending (.dmg) rather than relying solely on the MIME type. This 
allows lazy web masters to get away with not configuring their web 
servers correctly.

If you've ever clicked on a link for an EXE or some video file format 
and you got a bunch of gibberish in the browser window, this is what 
happened. It's disappointing that Safari has followed IE down the wrong 
path in this case when it's otherwise much more standards compliant.
-- 
Jonathan Rogers