166393 - no way to display text files from ftp urls with "non-standard" extensions.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 185618

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Christoph Weber-Fahr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

I tried to access a security note from the freebsd web site. This is a text file
with an .asc ending. 

Mozilla apparently considers this mime type "octet/stream", does not recognize
this as a text file and offers me
- to choose a helper application
- do download it
It should at least offer me a third alternative, namely "show it anyway"
Moreover, when I choose notepad.exe as a helper application, this doesn't work
as well (somthing flickers, but no notepad appears).

Maybe the proxy I use (a Cacheflow cache) is somehow involved; Unfortunately I
lack the opportunity to test it without a proxy. Here's an out put from the proxy:

wefa@tnd37 18:58 [~] telnet <whatever> 8000
Trying <whatever>...
Connected to <whatever>
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.as
c HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Connection: close
Last-Modified: Sun, 30 Jul 2002 18:16:37 GMT
Content-Length: 6667
Content-Type: octet/stream
Via: 1.0 <cache-name>

Connection closed by foreign host.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

in a current build, we do show that file as a textfile...

That said, bug 185618 is the bug for allowing to view supported files in the browser

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185618 ***