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In my organization, we are planning to make RDP files available via web browser. The hope is that users can just point their browsers to one or the other RDP file and have the remote desktop client launched automatically by the browser.

What I'm seeing instead is that all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer) consider RDP files to be either audio or movie file and consequently open a media player to play it.

My question is thus: is there a simple way to achieve what I want? why are the various browsers considering RDP to be a media format?

Thanks, Klaus.

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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
    – zetavolt
    Sep 22, 2010 at 14:30
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    What is that supposed to answer? Is there supposed to be an RDP MIME type defined there?
    – Moula
    Sep 22, 2010 at 14:58

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For Firefox take a look here:

Quote from the link:

They are predisposed to the idea that this is "how files are processed" by everything. In the case of files transferred from a web server to a browser, that is not correct. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1), Section 7.2.1 Type, states:

Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource.

In other words, how a file is processed by a browser is determined by the Content-Type field in the http Response Header; the file suffix should be ignored when there is a Content-Type field.

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