261578 - Force download of a XPI instead of opening the Extention Manager

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[u49640]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040917 Firefox/0.10 (MOOX M3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040917 Firefox/0.10 (MOOX M3)

I think it would be a nice addition if there is a possibility for a Website to
host XPIs for download that dont trigger the Extention Installer.

For example all those Thunderbird Extentions (see URL for example) that trigger
FF's Extention Manager (but FF cant do anything with them)
IMO it would be nice if i can tell Firefox somehow that this is just something
he should download and nothing to install. (some JS Magic maybe?)

An other idea would be that clicking on a Thunderbird XPI brings up the
thunderbird Extention Manager and not the FF one.

(Yes i know i can just zip the file and tell users to unzip them)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

If you want to force an XPI (or HTML file, etc) to be saved, use the
"content-disposition: attachment" header.

Comment 2

[u49640]

thanks, didnt know this

--> setting the Bug WFM

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

I appreciate the WFM is a true bill, id est it does 'Work for You', but isn't
the final disposition of this bug something like 'Not a bug' in the sense that
Firefox is operating the http protocols as specified?

More usefully, isn't this report an indication that documention for either
XPI, the extension installer or Firefox's adherence to protocols is missing
this information at some point?

Is there a way of transferring this kind of report to a list of potential
problems with documentation ...