256379 - application/rss+xml should pretty-print instead of downloading

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

1. Load http://www.squarefree.com/index.rdf

Result: Firefox asks me if I want to open or save.

Expected: Display the XML tree.  (For bonus points, add a "Subscribe" button at
the top in Firefox.)

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

We could either mark this as a duplicate of bug 155730 or make it depend on it.
After that bug is fixed we could make this a bug for the special "bonus points"
handling for this MIME type and probably for 'application/atom+xml' as well.

RDF files should have a 'application/rdf+xml' MIME type by the way, which is
supported, see bug 61839.

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050603
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060317

WFM

Clicking the link displays the XML Tree. (Tested with a clean profile)

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

That IRI is no longer sending the right MIME type to trigger the "bug" described
in comment 0. Please test that first before adding a comment. (Removing it for now.)

Comment 4

[timeless]

anyone could upload testcases to bugzilla and set mime types, in the interim
i've setup:
http://viper.haque.net/~timeless/index.256379-rss
http://viper.haque.net/~timeless/index.256379-rdf
http://viper.haque.net/~timeless/index.256379-atom

Comment 5

[Jungshik Shin]

Attachment: application/atom+xml

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

Attachment: testcase (rss)

Comment 7

[Jungshik Shin]

Attachment: testcase (rdf+xml)

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 303802 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 320222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[J. Thomas]

i'd greatly appreciate those feeds being displayed as trees...

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

Feeds are now displayed in a nice way: not as an XML tree like I suggested when I filed this bug, but as excerpts and links and a subscribe button.  I think that's more useful for most users, so I'm marking this as FIXED.

Comment 12

[Chris Casciano]

What changed to "fix" this and when? Was it a core change, or just something in the Firefox feed handling code?  Do you happen to know Jesse, because I don't see this behavior in Camino trunk builds

Comment 13

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

it was the ff feed handling code

Comment 14

[Christian Höltje]

It works in some cases and not for others.  Example that doesn't work:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5149?format=rss

Looking at the headers, I don't see what the difference is between this and the examples from timeless.

Ciao!

Comment 15

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

The feed in Comment 14 has the HTML tags visible since they are escaped HTML chars, but are you seeing something else that is broken on the page?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a2pre) Gecko/20090902 Namoroka/3.6a2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20090902052327

Comment 16

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Oy. We killed Camino, and SeaMonkey uses Firefox's feed preview. Die, bug.