259839 - mime-type does not get re-read from server

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Sean Proctor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040909 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040909 Firefox/0.9.3

It is impossible to get a page to load without closing Mozilla or clearing the
cache if you tried to open a page with mime-type application/octet-stream and
the mime-type for this file was changed on the server. Do mime-types need to be
cached? Is there someway to refresh the mime-type for a page that I can't visit
because I get a save dialog everytime I go there? Perhaps this bug is just a
feature I don't like at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a page with mime-type application/octet-stream
2. Change the mime-type of that page on the server to text/html
3. Try visiting that page again

Actual Results:  
The mime-type is cached as application/octet-stream, so you will be prompted to
save the file.

Expected Results:  
The page should be displayed normally.

Comment 1

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

er, the complete file is cached, not just the mimetype. clear your cache, or set
appropriate expires headers, if you don't want that

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

verified.