Mozilla/Galeon MIME Types

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:31:29PM -0400, I wrote:
> I have been listening to streaming mp3s of late (fun) but for some
> streams Mozilla and Galeon insist upon launching mpg123 instead of
> xmms.
> 
> How do I find out what the MIME type is for a given URL so I can tell
> my web browser to use xmms instead?

OK, so I have made some progress but that was in off-list e-mails so
let me summarize back to the list.

I seem to get the mime type with the following:

  $ lynx -source -mime_header http://live.charm.net:8000/wjhu/listen.pls | strings| head -20 | grep Content
  Content-Type: audio/mpeg

And that is what I expect.  It is an mp3 stream.  I have told Mozilla
to use xmms (an mp3 player) as the helper for "audio/mpeg", but it
instead launches mpg123 (another mp3 player that doesn't seem to work
as well for me).

Looking at another stream, one that works correctly with xmms:

  $ lynx -source -mime_header http://164.76.121.201:8000/broadband/listen.pls | strings| head -20 | grep Content
  Content-Type: audio/mpeg


I think I have a Mozilla (and so Galeon which uses Mozilla) bug and
need a newer version than the 0.9.8 that RH 7.2 gave me.


Thanks,

-kb