Closed Bug 157188 Opened 22 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Indicate MIME type on downlod progress dialog and/or Download Manager windows

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 495692

People

(Reporter: jpmelko, Unassigned)

Details

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020709
BuildID:    2002070908

Some times in Netscape 4 i had dowloading problems, because the mime/type
declration were not correct (On the server or in Netscape). 
Some times it is very hard to debug this. The main problem is to know what is
the mime/type sent by the server. There is to cases:
1) The file is not downloaded to the disk, but in a navigator window.
   The only way to know the mime/type was to wait the download to 
   complete(this is not always possible), and open the "Window info" 
   Dialog.
   Mozilla seems to show the mime/type during the download or after an  
   abortedomplete download but i am not sure. If not, is it
   possible to do that ?
2) The file is saved on the disk, with incorrect type/creator, the 
   wrong helper is called, etc.
   A simple solution is to add a column in the dowload manager that 
   show the mime/type
   

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.n/a
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Actual Results:  n/a

Expected Results:  n/a
Adding qawanted. Jean-Pierre, we need more specific information. What kind of MIME type 
causes this, for example? You can determine the MIME type by examining the source code of the 
e-mail (command+u).

This could be related to or a duplicate of bug 123630.
Keywords: qawanted
Summary: Get easy mime/type access → Get easy MIME type access
The problem is not for mail attachement, it's for the browser.
The page info show only the mime/type of the page. This is normal
But suppose now that in this page there is a link to a file, with mime/type 
problems.

A real example: 
In a page i found a link to a mpeg file; Clicking on it should run the quick time 
plugin, but it is saved on disk.
To see what happens really a have to know the mime/type sent by the server for 
this file. If the mime/type is correct it is a problem in my configuration, if 
the mime/type is not correct the error is on the server.
Fortunately, Mozzila can display the mime/type when it download the file, and 
this can resolve the problem.

For the moment i use Interarchy that show all the dialog with the server, 
including mime/type indentification

Jean-Pierre, please provide an example URL.
Sorry, but have not an example for a bad server configuration for the moment.
Each time i write to the webmaster, for correction

For the moment i have simulated a bad configuration of my mac.
- Quit Mozilla
- Open internet control panel
- Set the .hqx setting to:
  . Application: QuickTime Player
  . Save on disk
  Very bad settings, isn't ?
- Save the configuration
- Launch Mozilla
- Browse 
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Abstracts/app/HyperArchive.html
- Click on one of the dowload. I have tried with the first, actually Alchemy 1.3
- The file alchemy-13.hqx is saved on disk with a pretty Quick time icon

If i don't know what seetings are broken, i have to know the mime type of the 
downloaded file (actually application/mac-binhex40).
In this case it is easy, because the extension helps to find what is wrong.

I'll send you an url for a bad configured server as soon i find a new one.

Okay, I think what Jean-Pierre is asking for here could have some validity. Usually, it would be 
enough that Mozilla displays the MIME type on the "What should Mozilla do with this file?" dialog.

However, if the user has previously indicated that Mozilla shouldn't display that dialog for the 
given MIME type, and a server erroneously sends a file with that MIME type, the user might 
benefit from seeing that information on the progress dialog and/or the Download Manager 
windows.

I'll alter the summary to this, and confirm as an RFE. Reassigning to Download Manager.
Assignee: sgehani → blaker
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: XP Apps → Download Manager
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: paw → sairuh
Summary: Get easy MIME type access → Indicate MIME type on downlod progress dialog and/or Download Manager windows
QA Contact: sairuh → petersen
This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".
OS: Mac System 9.x → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Keywords: qawanted
Assignee: bross2 → download-manager
QA Contact: chrispetersen
MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614
Status: NEW → UNCONFIRMED
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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