702027 - File MIME-Type (Content-Type) Corruption

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[rtrappman]

Attachment: mimeTypes.rdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

Uploaded a file to my online storage site and it notified me that the MIME-Type that Mozilla Firefox had sent was not accurate due to a bug.


Actual results:

The site had automatically detected that it should have been "application/x-msdos-program" not "application/octet-stream" as suggested by Mozilla Firefox. 


Expected results:

Mozilla Firefox should have better MIME-Type detection algorithms, and not rely so heavily on the mimeTypes.rdf file. I have attached mine, which may be triggering this bug.

Comment 1

[rtrappman]

If you notice, even when I attached my mimesTypes.rdf file, it incorrectly assigned "application/octet-stream" instead of "application/rdf+xml".

Comment 2

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Are you still seeing this issue?

Comment 3

[rtrappman]

No, I haven't seen this issue occur in recent versions of Firefox (ex: 24.0).