263400 - does not render 'odd' web pages with custom extensions

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Hunter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

we use custom extensions for our templates (we wrote the actual web server that
does the template evaluation), this extension is .HTT . In IE and Opera, the
browser requests the page from the server and it sends back a normall HTML page.
But in FireFox 1.0Preview when that page is requested, it pops up a dialog
asking me what external program to use to handle that file type, then sends the
un-expanded version of the file. I saw no way to instruct FireFox to ingnore
this file and simply request it from the server.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unfortunately you can not reproduce the problem exactly as I am because you
don't have the same web server. But If you simply rename a normal HTM file to
HTT you should see the same behavior when you try and load that file.
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
got a dialog box wanting me to choose an external application to handle the HTT
file type.

Expected Results:  
make a request of the server to send the file over and then render it on the
browser not send it to a remote program.

I did try and associate the HTT file extension with FireFox but when I tried to
load the web page FireFox went into a loop opening new windows over and over
again. I had to kill the process in the Task Manager.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

You're probably not serving the file as text/html, so Firefox won't display it
as HTML.  Check your server MIME settings.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

assuming that fixed it (no response),

->WFM

feel free to reopen if it's continous to be a problem (not caused by your server)