143148 - Clicking on link to file shows file as text

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

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From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0+)
Gecko/20020505
BuildID:    2002050508

Clicking on the link which should start a download actually makes mozilla
attempt to open the file as text

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.sun.com.au/2002-0226/anniversary/#music
2. click on the link you see as "mp3 format" near the bottom
3. mozilla starts to open this as a page (you'll need to stop it as it is a 6MB+
page)


Actual Results:  you see the MP3 binary loaded in the page

Expected Results:  download the file

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Evangelism

The server sends the wrong mime-Type for this file (text/plain).
Mozilla can render text plain and you see the result..

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

FYI: IE6 recognises this file as a media file and offers to play it for you

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

IE6 does content sniffing/or use the file extension but that violates the
standards. 

Mozilla use the correct way:
1. Use the mime-type
if Http/0.9 server without mime-type in the header:
2. try to find the correct mime-type via the file extension
if that fails:
3. Content sniffing

The correctmime-type is: application/x-mp3 and mozilla plays it if a plugin or
via helper app.
or application/octet-stream and you get a download dialog.



workaround for broken servers : 
use right click/save link target as

Comment 4

[Barry McGeorge]

The problem persists as of build 2002053012 (1.0).  Doing a save target as...
only allows me to remove the .txt extension and put the file in quotes (which
then allows it to save properly).  This has been happening to me for just about
every filetype except gz and zip, which are recognized as WinZip (on my system).
 rar files do this as well.

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

Sent e-mail via http://www.sun.com.au/feedback/

Comment 6

[Olivier Cahagne]

Amazing response from Sun. That was fast !
"Thank you for your feedback.

The proper MIME type has been added to the server. Apologies for any
inconvenience caused."

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.