276874 - Firefox fails to determine filetye and save/oen file based on that

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Erik Wikström]

I've set u Firefox so that when clicking a torrent-file Firefox will launch a
bittorrent-client and start downloading. I've also set up so that when clicking
on a zip-file Firefox should bring up a Save-file dialog. Mostly it works as
exected but sometimes it fails and instead of launcing the bittorent-client when
clicking on a bittorent-file it brings up the save-file dialog.

Reproducability: Low
1. Set firefox to save zip-files automatically
2. Set firefox to open bittorent-files automatically
3. Find lots of zip-files shared as torrents and start klicking :(

I've noticed that I mostly get this trouble when downloading torrents from one
server and I was thinking that Firefox might rely on some information sent by
the server which it might not provide accurately. The server is
http://www.animewaves.net/ and the torrents can be found on the right.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

used this example:
http://www.animewaves.net/bittorrent/%5BAW%5D_Pastel_v04_c31.zip.torrent?PHPSESSID=05daf3341fa4b2cbcc0d5420a6300acd

Header from the server (via http://web-sniffer.net)
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date:	Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:53:57 GMT	CRLF
Server:	Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2
mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.9 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a	CRLF
Last-Modified:	Sun, 02 Jan 2005 05:47:05 GMT	CRLF
ETag:	"d180ef-2df-41d78ad9"	CRLF
Accept-Ranges:	bytes	CRLF
Content-Length:	735	CRLF
Connection:	close	CRLF
Content-Type:	application/zip

The  server sends application/zip for the torrent file and Mozilla handles this
fiel as zip (correct).
The server should be fixed (and yes, this works in IE but the reason is that IE
violates the http RFCs)