On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Ted Gould wrote:

> The problem is that this isn't an HTML thing, the webserver is what
> tells the webbrowser what kind of content it is receiving.  So, you'll
> need to add a MIME type for .deb in your webserver configuration.
> Webbrowsers really shouldn't detect extensions either, but I think most
> do.  They should believe the server's MIME type of the file.

Some use:

application/x-debian-package	deb
or
application/x-deb		deb

(Place this in the mime types file referenced or used by the web server.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/