277916 - Firefox opens binary OpenOffice.org document as text inside browser

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Peto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I want to place a file to our simple Intranet page. The file is OpenOffice.org
Calc (.sxc) and whether I do anything, the user's Firefox opens it in browser
window instead of some correct Open With or Save As dialogue.

I use "type="application/octet-stream" methods="get" etc. options inside of <A
HREF> tag, but no effect.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Peto]

Attachment: webpage where the file is opened from

The file is in the first row of tab, under the link called "prepocet dane". You
can test it by any OpenOffice.org .sxc file renamed to prepocet_dane_1.sxc, so
I don't post it (I cannot either).

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I use "type="application/octet-stream" methods="get" etc. options inside of <A
> HREF> tag, but no effect.
> 

That doesn't work. The MIME-tag of the *server* has priority. You'll have to
talk to the administrator of your webserver to map *.sxc to
application/octet-stream.

Comment 3

[Peto]

Hi,

I'm a webmaster too, so I have edited /etc/apache/mime.types and the desired
line is now
application/octet-stream bin sxc sxw sxi

I have restarted apache, but nothing changes. Firefox still opens the file in
window.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Use the full url in the href to the OO document.
No it tries to find the document at bugzilla

Comment 5

[Peto]

Peter, the file is not publicly accessible from Internet. The page is internal
Intranet page, so if You want to test it, U have to download the html file,
create directory "download" near him and place some "prepocet_dane_1.sxc" file into.

Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

In that case we can't check the problem , can we ?

INVA ?

Comment 7

[timeless]

just attach a sample .xsc, then attach a modified version of your html document
which points to the sample .xsc attachment's url.

Comment 8

[Peto]

Hm, strange. After a few hours and restart, some PCs act normally:

1. Linux, Firefox 1.0 -behaves normally now
2. W98, Firefox 0.9.3 -didn't try before, it works. Even with Mozilla Suite.
3. W2k, Mozilla 1.7.3 -works normally. Firefox 1.0PR is wrong, even after
restart. I uninstalled 1.0PR and installed 0.9.3 -works now.

Interesting, ins't?

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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