175433 - Usenet text message comes up as Quicktime plugin

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169991

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Brion Vibber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

When loading up certain usenet messages, instead of seeing text in the message
window, the message pane is replaced with the Quicktime plugin; since the
message is in fact plain text, the plugin displays a 'broken file' icon.

'View message source' shows normal headers and text, so text can be read with
difficulty.

Disabling plugins in mail & news from the preferences/advanced tab has no effect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open newsgroups.
2. Select message such as [e-mail] or
[e-mail] (see details below)
3. open it...

Actual Results:  
Broken Quicktime plugin displays.

Expected Results:  
Show text of message...

Quicktime 5.0.2 is installed. List of associated mime types sure doesn't appear
to include text/plain...

Message IDs of the particular bug-inducing messages I've found:
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
(and more)

These are in group sci.lang; the offending messages include all posted by a 'Rob
Bannister' and all by a 'Jacques Guy' from 10/16 on, but not those by the latter
author from 10/15 and before.

I tried loading the same messages via an alternate news server as well; same
results. Also, here're a few that do not trigger the bug:

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Message-ID: <Xns92AAABEDB2BE6orangiemikeaolcom@66.75.162.196>
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

All the offending messages have mime types set (text/plain, with charset
us-ascii or iso-8859-1); the offending messages were all posted by 3.x or 4.x
versions of Netscape, though this is not exclusive; some messages that show up
as text are similarly configured.

Headers for two samples of offenders:
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:32:42 -0700
From: Jacques Guy <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Organization: rather disorganized
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I; 16bit)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: City [was: Re: Postal address (was: Re: "n m'' words not in the OED)
References: <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>
<tjmq9.8111$[e-mail]> <Xns92A6EBA6EB373whhvans@194.168.222.8>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<A3Aq9.36952$NW3.7080@sccrnsc03>
<[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: d53-ds9-mel.alphalink.com.au
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d53-ds9-mel.alphalink.com.au
X-Trace: news.alphalink.com.au 1034904780 d53-ds9-mel.alphalink.com.au (18 Oct
2002 11:33:00 +1000)
Lines: 5
X-Admin: [e-mail]
Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.alphalink.com.au!news.alphalink.com.au!not-for-mail
Xref: uni-berlin.de sci.lang:222286 alt.usage.english:761016



Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.uwa.edu.au!not-for-mail
From: Robert Bannister <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: City [was: Re: Postal address (was: Re: "n m'' words not in the OED)
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:58:17 +0800
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Lines: 36
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>
<tjmq9.8111$[e-mail]> <Xns92A6EBA6EB373whhvans@194.168.222.8>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<A3Aq9.36952$NW3.7080@sccrnsc03>
<[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854";
x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: enyo.uwa.edu.au 1034992689 16384 202.148.94.3 (19 Oct 2002 01:58:09 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: [e-mail]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC)
X-Accept-Language: en
Xref: uni-berlin.de sci.lang:222367 alt.usage.english:761365


And a couple that aren't triggering the plugin:

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:35:33 -0700
From: Jacques Guy <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Organization: alphalink.com.au
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I; 16bit)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Human Language
References: <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <aofbdd$[e-mail]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: d56-ds2-mel.alphalink.com.au
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d56-ds2-mel.alphalink.com.au
X-Trace: news.alphalink.com.au 1034634982 d56-ds2-mel.alphalink.com.au (15 Oct
2002 08:36:22 +1000)
Lines: 14
X-Admin: [e-mail]
Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!news.alphalink.com.au!news.alphalink.com.au!not-for-mail
Xref: uni-berlin.de sci.lang:222086

Path: uni-berlin.de!lart.bofh.ORG!not-for-mail
From: Giles Todd <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Meaning of the word 'stiggly'
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 04:32:35 +0200
Organization: The action of organizing or putting into systematic form; the
arranging and co-ordinating of parts into a systematic whole.
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
NNTP-Posting-Host: lart.bofh.org (212.136.214.115)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1034994827 26154620 212.136.214.115 (16 [65249])
X-Orig-Path: private!nobody
Cancel-Lock: sha1:QlkGBQ1T5JMQIXWqnlkdHSDtMPA=
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572
X-No-Archive: yes
X-NFilter: 1.2.0
Xref: uni-berlin.de sci.lang:222369

Comment 1

[Charles Cooley]

I see the same problem with 1.2b on WinME.  More examples can be found in 
netscape.public.mozilla.mathml.  I can't see any of the messeges posted by 
Rodger B. Sidje in that group.

Comment 2

[Brion Vibber]

Another data point; posts from 'Castor Quinn' in alt.language.artificial and 
'Jim Breen' in sci.lang.japan are also showing up as quicktime for me. These
aren't posted from old Netscape versions, so I guess that's not it. Sample headers:

From: "Castor Quinn" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: alt.language.artificial
Subject: Slan
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:00:22 +1000
Lines: 9
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.7.134.89
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
X-Original-Trace: 11 Oct 2002 14:01:56 +1000, 203.7.134.89
NNTP-Posting-Host: news.rivernet.com.au
X-Trace: daisy.ans.com.au 1034308868 news.rivernet.com.au (11 Oct 2002 14:01:08
+1100)
Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!diablo.theplanet.net!colt.net!news-x2.support.nl!newsfeed.zip.com.au!news.syd.ausbone.net!198.32.232.8.MISMATCH!daisy.ans.com.au!news.rivernet.com.au
Xref: uni-berlin.de alt.language.artificial:8365

Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!news1.optus.net.au!optus!vrn.edu.au!towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au!not-for-mail
From: Jim Breen <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 18 Oct 2002 11:48:26 GMT
Organization: Monash Uni
Lines: 20
Sender: Jim Breen <[e-mail]>
Message-ID: <aoosea$q08$[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>  
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<aogmrc$erg$05$[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>
<aonn28$tvp$[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: jwbATcsse.monash.edu.au
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au 1034941706 26632 130.194.226.4 (18 Oct 2002
11:48:26 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: [e-mail]
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u))
Xref: uni-berlin.de sci.lang.japan:131243

.....

Hey waitaminute... THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL FROM AUSTRALIA!

That means there are numerous addresses ending in ".au"... and .au files are
assigned to QuickTime. Hmm...

Comment 3

[Brion Vibber]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169991 ***

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Verified dup