0004268: MMIP packages are downloaded as ZIPs sometimes - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004268	MMW v4	Framework: Scripts/Extensions	public	2008-01-10 15:11	2008-11-25 23:09

Reporter	jiri	Assigned To
Priority	urgent	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Product Version	3.0

Summary	0004268: MMIP packages are downloaded as ZIPs sometimes
Description	As reported by some users, MMIP is sometimes renamed by downloading to ZIP (since it's internal format is ZIP).
Tags	No tags attached.

Fixed in build

jiri 2008-01-10 15:13 administrator ~0012831	One suggestion is to allow RAR usage in MMIP packages. This would imply adding it's support to MM. Follow two posts from mar bex [marbex6@gmail.com]: ----- IE7 users get their mmip files renamed to zip while downloading. That leads to all kinds of problems. May I suggest that that we instead could use rar files as mmip files since they are not renamed. If there is some royalty problems involved with rar files there are perhaps other compressed formats which could be used? ----- ----- You're quit right. Googling this a bit it reveals that this is a common problem and it seems to have started with IE6+SP2. It has todo with some MIME functionality within IE, whatever that is. Some links: http://forums.pcworld.com/message/42852 http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?messageID=257256337&tstart=0 http://www.triptera.com.au/gps/index.html Checking out Winamp's site it seems that they have this problems sometimes: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?&threadid=207976#installing But their downloadlinks for skins, on their website, doesn't contain any extension. And they works well. One example: http://www.winamp.com/skins/download/172033 I also find out that if you zip the mmip file then it gets right, meaning that you can install it from within winrar, winzip or similar. Test it here: http://home.online.no/~kar-m-kr/TaggingInconsistencies.3.1.1-MM3Test.zip But I still think its best to use .rar files instead as the base to .mmip files or is it a problem with that? -----

jiri 2008-01-10 15:13 administrator ~0012832	Assigning to Rusty to review/discuss over IM.