271262 - xpi does not trigger xpinstall -- offers dialog for saving to disk or running with an application

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

On today's nightly trunk seamonkey build, XPInstall is not triggered when I
click on an XPI. Tested on win98 and winXP plus FC3. 

Steps to reproduce:

1. visit http://www.mozilla.org/quality/smartupdate/xpis/
2. click on any of the xpis 

Results: Open File dialog with choice to open or save to disk. 

Expected Results: XPInstall triggered and the XPI is installed.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Installing extensions from
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=mozilla seems to work. Has
something changed in Seamonkey that breaks XPI outside of UMO?

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

It seems like XPI extensions install from mozdev too. Has something changed that
breaks our old XPI tests? 

Comment 3

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

installing from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html works.
But the xpi's at the url from comment 0 are served with a text/plain mimetype.
Is this actually a website issue?

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This isn't an app error, it's a problem with the www.mozilla.org webserver
configuration, which doesn't have the right mimetype mapping for XPI. Probably
related to the new mirror machines.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

yep.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Hmmm, did this ever work?  We don't have a mime-type definition for xpi even on
rheet....

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, found it.  Someone had stuck it in /etc/mime.types instead of in the apache
config.  It's been moved into the apache config now, so the website mirrors
should pick it up the next time they rsync the config file.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Myk: has anything been set up with automation of pulling the config files to the
mirror webservers from rheet?  If not, how do I manually trigger that?  This
change appears to have not propogated yet.

Comment 9

[David G King]

Is this still a Smoketest Blocker?

Comment 10

[James Rome]

This still does not work onthe enigmail nightly build site with build 2004120304

Comment 11

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Dave, there's no automation for it at all, just manual scp copies.

Comment 12

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

All the WWW mirrors are under our direct control now, and have a cron job
syncing the config scripts.   This should be working now.