262587 - emusic.com - Must specify Helper Application each time audio/x-mpegurl file is downloaded

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Zina Saunders]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927

At the music website http://www.emusic.com, every time I try to listen to a
sample of music, Mozilla (and Firefox) asks me how to handle the audio/x-mpegurl
file. The check box to check "Always perform this action when handling files of
this type" is grayed out. When I open the Preferences in the Helper Applications
Preferences, I see an entry for audio/x-mpegurl, which I have specified my
preferred helper application, but I keep getting the dialog box everytime I
click on such a link. Emusic.com just re-designed their site, and this only
began after the re-design.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on "listen" link (audio/x-mpegurl)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I get the dialog box asking me how to handle the file.

Expected Results:  
My preferred helper application should automatically open file in iTunes.

Comment 1

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

can you attach a screenshot of that dialog to this bug (at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=262587&action=enter)? thanks!

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

They're sending "Content-Disposition: attachment", which requires the browser to
not silently render the content....  The dialog says this pretty clearly (note
that it doesn't have the "we don't know how to handle this" text!).

Over to tech evangelism.  Zina, I would suggest contacting emusic and asking
them to use "Content-Disposition: inline" instead....

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 4

[Payam Minoofar]

I have similar problems with http://www.traxsource.com The preview audio on this site will not play in 
any Mac browser, not even FF 1.02. Strangely enough, using the browser embedded in RealPlayer 10 for 
Mac, the site works flawlessly. What is it that Real is doing right that Firefox, Safari and Omniweb 
cannot?

Comment 5

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 262598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.