306178 - Firefox views and displays .wmv videos as text documents

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[bov90]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

On http://www.sasfilms.com/, firefox opens .wmv movies as text documents. If you
do not close it quickly, it will lock up firefox nad cause it to crash. If you
right click> save link as on a link, it displays the file type as Text Document,
but it downoads as a wmv and plays correctly in any media player. Note that it
isn't a problem with sasfilms.com because it works fine in other browsers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to sasfilms.com
2.Browse until you find a link to a .wmv video
3.Open the link
Actual Results:  
It displays the actual code of the video file, causing firefox to lock up.

Expected Results:  
Opened a prompt to allow a download.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

They are serving their videos as content type text/plain.

Comment 2

[Steve Chapel]

sasfilms.com seems to no longer have videos on their site. Or any site at all for that matter.