300202 - Content-Type: image/vnd.microsoft.icon forces Firefox to download the icon

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Martin F.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.microsoft.icon explains
that the right Content-Type for icons is image/vnd.microsoft.icon, but if an
icon is sent with that Content-Type-header Firefox prompts the user to download
the file instead of displaying it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a URL of an icon sent as image/vnd.microsoft.icon
Actual Results:  
Download prompt appears

Expected Results:  
The icon should be rendered inline.

Comment 1

[John Benes]

WFM 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050708
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005070810

Comment 2

[Martin F.]

Oops, the nightly build works indeed.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050709
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

May be fixed by Bug 38447.
See Bug 38447 comment #109 and follow-up comments for it.

Comment 4

[Martin F.]

Seems to be fixed by the patch of bug 252842.