184860 - Open swf file doesn't start the flash plugin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Daniel Schroeter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021209
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021209

If you open a .swf-File on your local filesystem with File -> Open File you can
just download or open the flash file with a helper application.
The message say that the type is image/vnd.rn-realflash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a flash-file on your local filesystem (for example
http://www.wetter24.de/Flash/W24-Loop-aktuell.swf)
2. Open the downloaded file (or one you have already downloaded)


Actual Results:  
A message say that the type is image/vnd.rn-realflash and you can save the file
(again) or open it with a helper application.

Expected Results:  
Play the file with the flash plugin.

Shockwave Flash 6.0 r60

Comment 1

[Peter Lubczynski]

Do you have any mime entries in your helper application settings in prefs? Is
this a regression, when did this last work?

Comment 2

[Daniel Schroeter]

I removed the ~/.mozilla directory.
There are no helper application configured and the mimeTypes.rdf looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#">

  <Description about="urn:mimetypes">
    <NC:MIME-types>
            <Seq about="urn:mimetypes:root">
            </Seq>
    </NC:MIME-types>
  </Description>
</RDF>

As helper application I getting as preselection /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay
however mozilla knows this...

Is the problem from some files under /usr/share/mimelnk?

$ rpm -ql RealPlayer-8.0-1
[...]
/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/RealPlayer.kdelnk
/usr/share/apps/Multimedia/realplayer.desktop
/usr/share/mime-info/realplay.keys
/usr/share/mime-info/realplay.mime
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/sdp.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/smil.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.rn-realmedia.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-sdp.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-shockwave-flash2-preview.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/aiff.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/basic.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/vnd.rn-realaudio.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-aiff.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-pn-aiff.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-pn-au.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-pn-realaudio.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-pn-wav.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-pn-windows-acm.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/image/vnd.rn-realflash.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/image/vnd.rn-realpix.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/text/vnd.rn-realtext.kdelnk
/usr/share/mimelnk/video/vnd.rn-realvideo.kdelnk

Does mozilla source this informations?

Comment 3

[Daniel Schroeter]

Ups, I missed one question....

I don't know if it ever has worked. I had the same problem with 1.2 and 1.2.1.

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

does Flash even support this mime type? you have to be able to map the plug-in
to an application that supports that mime type.

this sounds like an invalid bug

Comment 5

[Daniel Schroeter]

If I open the URL http://www.wetter24.de/Flash/W24-Loop-aktuell.swf in mozilla
it works fine. Okay, the webserver change the mime type....
However, I found no flash file that had the correct mime type
application/x-shockwave-flash if I open it with File -> Open File...

If it's an configuration error: Can we configure mozilla to open
image/vnd.rn-realflash with the flash plugin _by_default_ if flash is installed?
Otherwise all users have to change there configuration. Or I'm the only one with
this bug?

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

reassign

Comment 7

[Christian Weickhmann]

Actually I removed the entries under /usr/share/mimelnk and mime-info
refering to swf filetypes.

It doesn't work either.

Using Mozilla 1.2.1 under root account works perfectly all right. The swf-file
is opened.

I'm now searching for realplayer entries. Perhaps the Plug-ins definitions for
RealPlayer8 are corrupt !?

Souldn't this bug be set to "NEW" ?

Comment 8

[Daniel Schroeter]

If I use Mozilla as root it doesn't work.

Chris: Will the swf-file be open with the flash plugin or with the realplayer if
you open a local swf-file?

Comment 9

[Christian Weickhmann]

As root it will be opened with the flash-plugin ... only as users it's opened
with realplayer ...

Weird, isn't it!?

BTW: .fla files work correctly

Comment 10

[Peter Lubczynski]

I think the mapping between file extensions and mime type isn't working
correctly for Flash in your configuration.

--->file handling

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Are there entries for that extension in /etc/mime.types?  What 
about /root/.mime.types?  What about the .mime.types file in the user's homedir?

Comment 12

[Daniel Schroeter]

I'm sorry, this Bug was my fault.

Thanks Boris for the hint.

In my /etc/mimte.types was just the following avaiable:
image/vnd.rn-realflash rf swf
application/x-shockwave-flash2-preview rf swf

After I added
application/x-shockwave-flash rf swf

it's working fine.