268132 - .txt in Addressbar -- Download vs. Display

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Frederik Braun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

Firefox' behaviour seems to be undefined there.
Sometimes Firefox wants to open the txt-file within the browser (which I prefer)
and sometimes the download-dialog is opened and Firefox asks me whether to
download or open the file with a 3rd-party-programm.

This behavious occurs if you either enter the URL in the Addressbar or get to
this URL by following a link.

Sorry, for I couldn't describe it any better. No idea why Firefox behaves
differently, from time to time.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the mentioned URL in the Adressbar
or
1. Go to http://klopfer.datenkrieger.org
2. Click "klopfer anzeigen", which leads to the same URL.


Actual Results:  
Sometimes Firefox opens the download-dialog and sometimes it displays the txt-file .

Expected Results:  
Display the txt-file within the browser

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Next time it prompts you to save, please save it, and add it as an attachment
here: the page is sent (correctly) as text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1, which is
also the Apache default that we treat as an invitation to content-sniff, so I
suspect it's seeing something that doesn't look like actual text when it wants
you to save it.

Comment 2

[Frederik Braun]

(In reply to comment #1)
I'm not sure if that's the problem, but I think the text-file seems to have no
CRLF at line ends but only LF (\n).
Is that the problem, why firefox rather likes to download than to display the file?
(Well sometimes it does NOT save the file, but displays. This is really weird.)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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