224609 - No support for RAR, ACE etc archives; clicking link to download one of these archives produces random characters.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Barlow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I can normally download rar archives and other files related to it in Internet
Explorer, but when I go to download one of these filetypes, Firebird 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click above link (http://home.comcast.net/~mike1128/test.rar while in Firebird
2. Instead of downloading the file, you will get random characters

Actual Results:  
The same thing; random characters instead of downloading .rar archives.

Expected Results:  
Made .rar .ace and any similar filetypes compatible with Firebird.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

That's because your server is saying that the MIME type of the file is
text/plain (look in Page Info to see), so Mozilla does what the server says to
do: treats the files as plain text.

There are umpteen bug reports like this for RAR, ACE, and other file types, and
it's always because the server config is wrong.  This is not a bug in Mozilla. 
The server admin needs to fix the server setting.

->Invalid.