299849 - Mime type ignored for a PDF or JPEG responses.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[merikhusby99]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

My Tapestry based application displays generated PDF's or JPEG's by sending back
an HTTP response with the mime type set to "application/pdf" or "image/jpeg".
This works on the Windows version of Firefox but not on the Mac. Instead, I get
the popup asking what application to associate with the "pdf.do" file type or
"image.do" filetype. In the Tapestry application, ".do" refers to the Tapestry
service that provides the bytes. Given that different services provide different
output, I can not simply associate the ".do" file type with an application. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
On the server side, in response to a url of the form "/pdf.do", set the content
type to "application/pdf" and send back a PDF. 

Actual Results:  
The "Opening pdf.do" dialog pops up.

Expected Results:  
Displayed the PDF.

Comment 1

[Ray Kiddy]

Are these all dupes of each other? Or perhaps related to another meta-bug?

Bug 283038 – Mac: firefox suggests Adobe Acrobat as default PDF app instead of Preview (edit)
Bug 354971 – Insufficient options when opening PDF files (edit)
Bug 290609 – Downloaded pdfs not recognized as pdfs (edit)
Bug 299849 – Mime type ignored for a PDF or JPEG responses. (edit)

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.