MIME type of downloads; download automation

[ElEnginiero]

Hey folks,

I'm wondering if it's intentional that the MIME type for downloads is application/octet-stream. That way it's impossible to tell (e.g.) Firefox to always automatically save downloaded VAR files in a specific folder (the AddonPackages folder for instance). You always have to click through the download dialogs even though what you do with VAR files is usually the same. That gets a bit annoying after a while.

Would it be possible to change the MIME type to something a little less generic? Like for instance application/vam-var? That way we could, if we wanted, explicitly set the action automatically performed on the VAR file in FF (and other browsers, I suppose). It's not a standard MIME type but it should work in our little ecosystem here nevertheless. Feel free to look into RFC 6838 and RFC 6648 if you like. They describe the standards behind MIME types.

Would be awesome!

 

[meshedvr]

We won't be changing that, but the upcoming 1.20.1 release has the Hub built-in and allows very easy direct download and install into VaM. The in-game web browser in 1.20.0 also already detects var file download and places them into AddonPackages for you.

 

[ElEnginiero]

Ah, yeah, makes sense. Totally forgot about the ongoing integration.