[Lula] md5sum weirdness on firefox

[Peter Benjamin]

FYI

Browser's default download format is text file (ftp ascii), not binary.
FTP ascii mode means any binary files that is downloaded is goes
through the End Of Line mapping, corrupting the file.  Likely
this is not the case.  This would apply only for http:// URLs,
not ftp:// URLs, which should do binary mode.  wget and mirror
and other commands are better at the download default binary mode.

When I get corrupt downloads MD5 is the last measure I use for
detective work.  Try

ls -l
wc
diff

wc counts new lines which ascii mode transfers would mess up.

Oh, MIME type works off the extension when served by Apache, not
the magic number, so the .rpm would have to have not been 
defined in Apache's mime.types file.  I consider that very 
unlikely.  Apache puts the file type into an http command.
You might be able to use Firefox Web Developer to view the
http response headers.

FireFox 2 is available.