173106 - copiousoutput ignored in mailcap

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Nicolas George]

Il my mailcap file, I have

application/msword;     antiword %s;    copiousoutput

If I try to download an word file witn Mozilla, it asks me if I want to open it
with antiword, and then dumps the document on its standard output, usually
~/.xsession-errors.

I think Mozilla shound take in account the copiousoutput flag, and recapture the
output to display it itself.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um... You're using a command that writes to standard output.  You should be 
using "needsterminal" (not like we support that yet).  I suppose we could 
make "copiousoutput" imply "needsterminal"...  Past that, I'm not quite sure 
what a good way of dealing would be... There's no clean way to open "antiword | 
$PAGER" in a terminal window....

Comment 2

[Nicolas George]

There is another way for Mozilla to handle copiousoutput : it can catch antiword
output, and display it as a text/plain document. I think this would be the best
way to do it, but it may not be trivial to do.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That would indeed be somewhat hard, and more to the point would be broken.  Far
too many apps that would be flagged with "copiousoutput" embed ANSI
color/bold/whatever sequences in their output because they expect a terminal to
handle it.  Thus the output is in fact not text/plain and Mozilla's rendering of
it would be pretty broken.