> I've been trawling the web for some .apks to add into andappstore.com
> and noticed that a lot of people aren't using the MIME type which is
> necessary to automatically start the installer
> (application/vnd.android.package-archive).

> I would like to know from anyone hosting an .apk if this is because;

> a) You can't reconfigure their web servers to use the MIME type for
> .apks (due to shared hosting, etc.)
> b) You haven't got around to reconfiguring the web server to use the
> right MIME type.
> c) You could, but aren't planning to make the necessary change to the
> server.

> Thanks,

> Al.

Mark Hansen wrote:
> I'd dug around in the past, but never could find the mime type.  I
> assumed we were going to get some sort of post eventually regarding
> the app store and how and if we could host our own stuff.

> On Oct 3, 1:21 pm, Al Sutton <al.sut...@alsutton.com> wrote:

>> I've been trawling the web for some .apks to add into andappstore.com
>> and noticed that a lot of people aren't using the MIME type which is
>> necessary to automatically start the installer
>> (application/vnd.android.package-archive).

>> I would like to know from anyone hosting an .apk if this is because;

>> a) You can't reconfigure their web servers to use the MIME type for
>> .apks (due to shared hosting, etc.)
>> b) You haven't got around to reconfiguring the web server to use the
>> right MIME type.
>> c) You could, but aren't planning to make the necessary change to the
>> server.

>> Thanks,

>> Al.