[libreoffice-website] Invalid mimetype with download mirrors

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, if it's not sorry for the
inconvenience.

Some of the download mirrors return an invalid Content-Type when we request
a download from them; this is harmless for most browsers, but for Internet
Explorer users (and maybe Edge one's too) it cause the downloaded file to
end with a '.man' extension instead of '.msi'. They can't open it
automatically and have to either rename it or redownload it and hope to find
a mirror that works for them.

The invalid Content-Type is "application/x-troff-man". Other types returned
that seems to work fine are "application/octet-stream",
"application/x-msdownload", "application/x-msi" and weirdly enough
"text/plain" (although I only used HEAD so I don't know if the resulting
download would be valid).

This is not a wide issue: out of thje 79 mirrors I tested, only 7 returned
the invallid content-type:
X
http://mirror.in2p3.fr/ftp/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.2.4/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.4_Win_x86.msi
X
http://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.2.4/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.4_Win_x86.msi
X
http://speglar.simnet.is/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.2.4/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.4_Win_x86.msi
X
http://mirror.library.ucy.ac.cy/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.2.4/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.4_Win_x86.msi
X
http://mirror.nbtelecom.com.br/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.2.4/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.4_Win_x86.msi
X
http://ftp.wayne.edu/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.2.4/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.4_Win_x86.msi
X
http://mirror.rise.ph/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.2.4/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.4_Win_x86.msi

however, for downloads near France, the list of 6 closest mirror have 2 of
these returning the incorrect content-type, causing a lot of unnecessary
noise on the user mailing list.

It would be nice if this issue could be fixed.



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