Closed
Bug 189391
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
Open Attachment Function only considers MIME type, not file extension
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Attachments, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: jochen, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 Sometimes I receive Mail attachments that are coded with Content-Type: application/octet-stream; Example: Powerpoint-Presentation sent through Outlook Express The file hast the extension ".pps". When I tell Mozilla to open the Attachment, it offers to use "ark" as it would for zip-files, because ark is assigned to the octet-stream MIME type. Because other attachments come with this MIME type too, I cannot simply assign octet-stream to the Powerpoint Viewer as a quick workaround. I report this case here becaue I think it would be great if I could not only assign helper applications by MIME types but also by file extension. Wouldn't it be possible to get this information from the KDE settings? *wild-dreams* Or maybe, if I would create an assignment application/ms-powerpoint with extension pps, then I can choose between using the assignment by MIME-Type or by Extension? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Assign MIME type "application/octet-stream" to any application 2. Receive a mail that has an attachment that is coded "application/octet-stream" (I guess you can do this using Outlook Express) and has the extension ".pps" 3. Open the attachment Actual Results: Mozilla lets you choose to open the attachment with the application assigned to the MIME type or save the file to disk. Expected Results: Let me choose between opening the attachment with the application assigned to the MIME type or opening the attachment with the application assigned to the extension or save the file.
Comment 1•22 years ago
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I seem to see a similar problem. When I receive an attachment as Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="123.pdf" It is opened as HTML (which is probably the default "octet-stream" handler). Very inconvenient ...
Comment 2•21 years ago
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this seem to be addressed in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67940
Comment 3•21 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67940 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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