272043 - m3u file action not remembered (strikes back)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Hadrien Nilsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

When I click on a link to a .m3u file, the action dialog pops up to ask me what
Firefox should do with m3u files. Even if I ask Firefox to always to the same
actkon with m3u files, the action dialog continues poping each time I click on a
link to a .m3u file.

The .m3u is correctly sent by the server as an audio/x-mpegurl file. And Firefox
already knows which application it should use (Winamp for me).

For other file types, Firefox remembers correctly the action to do.

You can use the provided URL and click on « play high preview » or « play low
preview » links.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the provided URL
2.click on one of the « play high preview » links
3.the action dialog pops up, check the box to make Firefox remember the action
you want.
4.click on another « play high preview » link. The action dialog pops up again.

Actual Results:  
The action pops up every time I click on a .m3u link, though the box to make
Firefox remember the action is checked.

Expected Results:  
The action dialog should pops up only once, when the .m3u file type is not
registered yet in the Download Manager, just like other file types.

I experimented the same kind of problem with .wmv files but I didn't study that
case in depth. I think it's the same bug than with .m3u files. This bug may
appear with other file types.

This is bug 220512 back from death.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Connecting to www.cytopia.org[69.44.157.41]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
 1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 2 Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:23:04 GMT
 3 Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux
 4 Set-Cookie: MYSID=cfdf4872937e8d37d850a4c274189c6e; path=/
 5 Expires: 0
 6 Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
 7 Pragma: public
 8 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=preview19.m3u;
 9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
10 Content-Length: 111
11 Keep-Alive: timeout=20, max=150
12 Connection: Keep-Alive
13 Content-Type: audio/x-mpegurl

Header #8 tells Mozilla to show a save as dialog instead of handling it internal
(or by a plugin or helper app). 
This is by design.

-> invalid

Comment 2

[Hadrien Nilsson]

This behaviour is not oriented to the end user. At least Firefox should explain
why the action dialog is popping everytime. Currently this is destabilizing.