192704 - Documents (e.g. *.pdf) not opened by according plugins, only save-to-disk available

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 185618

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthias Röper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Although plugins for pdf-files are installed (plugger & acrobat plugin), they ar
not used for opening a document. The mime-type is correctly recognized
(application/pdf). It only seems to happen in Mozilla 1.2.1 (en and de
-version), whereas Mozilla 1.0 works o.k. Using the paket sniffer etheral under
linux, i found out that this only happens if the Web-Server delivers the
document with the "content-disposition" field. This is true e.g. for the
BSCW-Document Managing System (http://www.bscw.de) using Apache as Web-Server.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.demand a .pdf document from the BSCW-application
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
save-to-disk window opens (to decide whether open using application / save to disk)

Expected Results:  
open the plugin associated with the mime-type (acrobat reader plugin) in the browser

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Is this true for any value of "Content-Disposition:", or only for 
"Content-Disposition: attachment"? If the latter, it's a duplicate of bug 
185618, I think.

Comment 2

[Keith Pickering]

pdf files fail to load *every time* with Mozilla 1.3 under Linux; why is this
bug still unconfirmed? And given the number of pdf documents on the web, why is
severity "normal"?

All pdf loads failed on the mozilla test page at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/plugins/acrobattest.html,
except for the broken links (test 1 and test 6). "Open with program" is useless
when we have no idea where mozilla buried the plug-in, or even what it's called.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

it is by design that the helper app dialog appears for disposition:attachment.
marking duplicate of bug to allow showing the file in the browser in such cases.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185618 ***