144264 - deskmod.com - wal and wsz files sent as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Kalle Mäkelä]

When trying to download type of file, that Mozilla doesn't recognize such as
.wal (winamp 3 skin) the browser tries to save download.txt (size 0). Or if
pressed link  *download* opens a window with encrypted text.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It's a server bug if you get "encrypted data" in the window.

I get this with :
http://winamp.deskmod.com/files/winamp3/files/Mechanix.wal

-> TE

Comment 2

[Dave]

This might even be a dupe of Bug 126782, in which you will find a discussion of how
Mozilla is going to handle mime-types that it doesn't know what to do with (and
also files with no mime type specified by the server, which I suspect is what's
happening here).
In the meantime, I think you actually _can_ save these files successfully by right
clicking on the link, choosing "Save Link Target As...", and calling it
something.wal.  That worked for me; you might have tried to open the file before
it was finished downloading, which explains why it looked like the file was size
0, so try it again, but wait for it to finish downloading first.  You may also
have to change the file extension when the download is complete.

Comment 3

[Dave]

Forgive the spam.  I have come around to agree with Matti that this is a matter
of web server misconfiguration (and the bug is TE).  But a fix for Bug 126782
would probably make the reporter happy.

Comment 4

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

Bug 126782 is about FTP file transfers where there is no such thing as
Content-type: headers. In this bugs case, the server is explicitly sending the
result as Content-type: text/plain, so that is how Mozilla treats it (and should).

This also affects .wsz files elsewhere on the site, so i'm broadening this bug.

wsz files should be sent as interface/x-winamp-skin, I am not sure if Nullsoft
has decided how they want to handle winamp3/wal skins. It looks like they are
zips like wszs.

Comment 5

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

Email sent to [e-mail] regarding the problem.

Comment 6

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

Server has been updated. Marking fixed.