291884 - Allow to skip file download when invoke helper applications.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 225882

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Stephan H. Wissel]

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

We are using webDAV (e.g. the one with of Apache Tomcat) to store Office
documents. When opening files in Office using the URL changes are saved back to
the webDAV server.
When browsing the file list with FF clicking on a office file triggers the
Mime-Type lookup in FF, which then downloads the file and starts office to edit
the file (in the temp location). Changes to the file are not saved back to the URL.
There should be a possibility to tell FF NOT to download a specific mime type
but to launch the helper application with the URL on the commandline (rather
than the path to the downloaded temp file).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse a webDAV repository
2. CLick on a office file
3. Change the content, save it
4. Close office
5. Click on the link again

Actual Results:  
The document changes are lost since the changes were not made to the actual file
but a temp file

Expected Results:  
Direct launch of the file from the URL. Btw this is how IE does that

Comment 1

[Stephan H. Wissel]

Attachment: Mockup how the Download Dialog could be ammended

Of course one could hide this functionality in the preference to avoid
confusion with less technical users. However this seems sensible since more and
more software can talk http:
Hth
:-) stw

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Since this seems to be primarily about changing the Firefox UI, sending there
first. Note that the checkbox should not appear when the file being downloaded
has no stable associated URI, such as when it is the result of a POST request.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225882 ***