251215 - Mozilla should offer to open "Attachment" links of supported types in browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 185618

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Johan Walles]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Go to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=69908

Click "CDT modification proposal for 64-bit support".

A dialog is opened saying that the file is an "attachment" of type text/html and
asks me what I want Mozilla to do with the file.


Current behaviour:
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I can choose between opening it in an external app, or to save it to disk.

Expected behaviour:
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Since text/html is a MIME type supported by Mozilla I should be allowed the
choice of opening the file inside Mozilla as well.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Server sends:
 1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 2 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:57:00 GMT
 3 Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
 4 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=cdt_64_bit_support.htm
 5 Content-Length: 55888
 6 Connection: close
 7 Content-Type: text/html; name="cdt_64_bit_support.htm"; charset=ISO-8859-1

I guess it's "Content-Disposition: attachment" that causes this behaviour.

Comment 2

[Johan Walles]

Yes, it is.  The dialog box actually says so explicitly.

My point is that Mozilla has one option too little (i.e. "handle this in the
browser" is missing) when handling stuff tagged as "attachment".

Comment 3

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

finally found the original bug

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