185222 - the wmv file loades gibberish in the broswer window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[shadow_walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

clicking on the wmv link at the top, the wmv file loads gibberish in the
browswer window. I have tried to configure a mime type for it, but I am unable
to. I am trying to get it to open using media player.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on the wmv link
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
displayed gibberish

Expected Results:  
media player should open externally to play file

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Is this (again ?) a duplicate of 120327 ?

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->File Handling

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wget http://www.electronicsworkbench.com/avi/msm/msmschemcap.wmv
--00:04:28--  http://www.electronicsworkbench.com/avi/msm/msmschemcap.wmv
           => `msmschemcap.wmv'
Resolving www.electronicsworkbench.com... done.
Connecting to www.electronicsworkbench.com[209.47.56.83]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,477,141 [text/plain]

The server means that this file is "text/plain" and mozilla can (of course)
render text plain.

-> invalid (the server should send the correct mime-type, write a mail to the
webmaster))

Comment 4

[Jim Booth]

Here's a helpful page of information for server administrators on how to fix this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/mime.asp