239015 - Firefox fails to act correctly with Winamp / Shoutcast streams

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Tom Graham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040321 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040321 Firefox/0.8.0+

Firefox has a problem with Winamp radio / Shoutcast audio streams. Rather than
sending the info to winamp so it can start playing the song / radio station, it
essentially "downloads" the stream perpetually - its essentially doing winamps
job, but not playing the music! An example can be seen via the URL here (
http://64.236.34.196/stream/1031 ). 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Expected Results:  
Firefox should have told winamp to handle the stream rather than attempting to
deal with it itself.

Comment 1

[Tom Graham]

Sorry for the spam;

Seems the problem is not always reproducable - that url causes the problem but
attempting to reproduce @ shoutcast.com fails to yield the same results. On
another note, *.pls is not something recognised by firefox and is perhaps worth
linking with winamp.

Comment 2

[PikeUK]

My understanding of this stuff is limited at best but the example URL doesn't
seem to return any HTTP header at all:

GET /stream/1031 HTTP/1.1
Host: 64.236.34.196
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040327 Firefox/0.8.0+
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

ICY 200 OK
icy-notice1: <BR>This stream requires <a
href="http://www.winamp.com/">Winamp</a><BR>
icy-notice2: SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server/SolarisSparc v1.9.4<BR>
icy-name: Virgin Radio - todays best music and classic tracks, live from London, UK
icy-genre: Adult Pop Rock
icy-url: http://www.virginradio.co.uk
icy-pub: 1
icy-metaint: 0
icy-br: 128
icy-irc: #shoutcast
icy-icq: 0
icy-aim: N/A

So I don't see how Firefox could know what to do with it (the streams at
shoutcast.com do return a HTTP header) and on my PC neither IE or Firefox do
anything with the stream.

As for adding a default association for pls files that should probably be filed
as a separate bug.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

This bug is invalid, as there is no MIME type specified, and it can't figure out
what to do with it, so it parses as text/plain.