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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I just use python's urllib2. The prc ebook from the website you were trying to get is being incorrectly delivered with a Content-Type of application/x-pilot-prc:
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http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/...160/Sheepfarme
rs_Daughter.prc
Last-Modified: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:27:24 GMT
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The other .mobi you specified is being served with the correct Content-type of application/x-mobipocket-ebook
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In the case of not accepting application/palm, you may be right about it being a little picky. But, just how many incorrect webserver configurations is Amazon supposed to account for?
As for accepting files that are labeled as application/octet-stream... that would be the height of foolishness. Content-type application/octet-stream is generally reserved for files that have no known program association. Why would Amazon allow that? |
Thansk for the information, that's just what was needed,
Err 'pilot' in application/x-pilot-prc IS the Palm Pilot though I expect all the Kindle designers were still in kindergarten in the 1990's.
(Webscriptions/ Baen have been selling ebooks since 1999).
I take it the application/x-* thingies are not officially registered ?
http://www.iana.org/assignments/medi...s/application/
accepting what a browser would accept and checking for a .prc extension would work.