272146 - cartoonnetwork.com.ve - Pages saved from internet on hard disk with shockwave director content no displays shockwave content

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[edward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

I have mozilla 1.7.3 in windows xp sp1 with shockwave 10.1 installed and
verified in about:plugins.
Saving pages with shockwave director content, for example:
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.ve/play/danger_grid/index.html, then  displays the
page saved in mode offline and Mozilla displays well the page except for the
place where was shockwave content, instead of shockwave content appears a white
picture with a puzzle piece, do click and appear a pop-up dialog:
"Information on this page requires a plug-in for:
text/plain
Navigator can retrieve the plug-in for:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/
To retrieve the plug-in now, click the Get the Plug-in button and then select
the plug-in you need from the page that appears. If you have trouble .......
......under Advanced)

Get the plug-in Cancel"
Do click in get the plug-in and mozilla go to
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/, then download the shockwave
player (it has the same version number that the one that was installed), close
mozilla, install shockwave player, then start mozilla, open the page saved and
mozilla displayed the same that above mentioned.
In conclusion, mozilla saves the shockwave director files of pages  in archives
with extention txt which shockwave player doesn't know to interpret. 
For verifying the previously said, look the source code of the page and look for
the words dir, dcr or dxr, then watching the reference of the archive and
observing that indicates to a file with extention txt. Later, Looking for the
file in the folder linked to the page saved (page_files) and finding the file
with extention txt.
This problem occurs same with shockwave player 8.5.

P.S. THIS PROBLEM DOESN´T HAPPEN IN MOZILLA 1.4 WITH SHOCKWAVE PLAYER 8.5 INSTALLED

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a page with shockwave content, for example:
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.ve/play/danger_grid/index.html
2.Save the page to hard disk
3.Open the page saved in mode offline

Actual Results:  
The page saved displayed the same as above mentioned (The place of the page with
shockwave content appears a white picture with a puzzle piece)

Expected Results:  
The page saved should display the shockwave content correctly

Build platform
target
i586-pc-msvc

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--without-system-jpg --without-system-zlib --enable-extensions=default,irc,tasks
--enable-crypto --disable-auto-deps --disable-debug --enable-optimize=-O1

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

The server is misconfigured, it shouldn´t use text/plain as MIME type for flash.
As seen with extension LiveHTTPHeaders, all .swf and the game.dcr files are
served with Content type: text/plain

When I try to load the game directly,
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.ve/play/danger_grid/game.dcr
Mozilla asks me what to do with it: 
the file "game.dcr" is of type application/x-director ...

Seems when the object is embedded, mozilla doesn´t guess, but believes to the
server, and when it is loaded directly, mozilla starts a guess.


I don´t have flash or shockwave installed, but I had on older mozillas. 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  This is a tech evangelism issue...  This site itself will break too when
we fix plugins to not use the extension.

Comment 3

[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.