290769 - when clicking video attachments in phpbb forum (have not checked others), all the user gets is garbled text.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Kevin Cackler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

In firefox, when downloading a video (I only have access to wmv videos, so it
could only be wmvs causing the problem) from phpbb attachment hack (again, this
could be on other sites as well), all the user gets is garbled text.  When right
clicking and clicking save as, we get a file called download.php (what phpbb
uses as the downloader middle man) and it is just garbled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click video link in phpbb
Actual Results:  
Garbled text instead of wmv movie

Expected Results:  
Played a wmv movie

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Odds are the video is being sent with the wrong content-type. Try checking the
link at http://www.edginet.org/cgi-bin/http_head.cgi to see what Content-type is
being sent.

Comment 2

[Kevin Cackler]

This only happens with 1.0.2 and 1.0.3  I am a webmaster on a very large phpBB
powered site and we have not changed anything, but users that have upgraded are
complaining.  I tested myself and confirmed that something is not right.  Also,
the content type is correct and IE handles the links wonderfully.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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