Closed
Bug 249696
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
better error message for content auto-detection needed
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)
Core Graveyard
File Handling
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 285517
People
(Reporter: mavit+bugzilla.mozilla.org, Unassigned)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Galeon/1.3.15 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 http://www.triv.org.uk/~mavit/typescript is a text file containing occasional control characters. As I understand it, it is valid ISO-8859-1, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#ISO_8859-1_vs_ISO-8859-1 seems to support this view. The web server delivers it with the header "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1". However, Mozilla has other ideas. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.triv.org.uk/~mavit/typescript Actual Results: A box popped up saying: The file "typescript" is of type application/octet-stream, and Mozilla does not know how to handle this file type. This file is located at: http://www.triv.org.uk/~mavit/ What should Mozilla do with this file? ( ) Open it with the default application ( ) Open it with [ ] [ Choose... ] (*) Save it to disk The dialogue box says that the file is of type "application/octet-stream", even though the web server explicitly said that it's a "text/plain". Note also that there is no option to open the contents directly in Mozilla (although it appears this is already being tackled in bug 57342). Expected Results: I'd expect the contents of the file to be displayed on the screen, which is what used to happen. I appreciate that perhaps most supposedly text/plain files containing non-printable characters are actually binaries, and you could argue that if a file contains control characters then it's not suitable for displaying anyway, so perhaps asking the user what to do isn't a bad idea. However, you should explain what's going on, rather than "lying" about the content type to the user. Something like 'The file "typescript" claims to be of type text/plain, but looks more like an application/octet-stream. Mozilla does not know...' seems less likely to cause confusion to web developers. Also reproduced with Firefox 0.8 on Windows 2000. On Linux, with Firefox 0.8 as downloaded from Fedora, the text is always shown inline.
Updated•20 years ago
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Severity: normal → enhancement
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 misidentified as application/octet-stream → better error message for content auto-detection needed
Updated•20 years ago
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Keywords: helpwanted
For reference this is one of the special cases from bug 220807. If you change the iso to Iso it works fine.
Comment 2•19 years ago
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Comment 3•19 years ago
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fixed later in bug 285517, because I couldn't find this bug :( *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 285517 ***
Updated•8 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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