314516 - File upload of MS Word doc sends wrong content-type.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 306471

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[John DiFrancesco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Trying to upload an MS-Word 2000 resume to various jobs sites (Monster, rayjobs.com, et. al.) results in an error indicating that the file is not the correct type.  Repeating the process using IE successfully uploads the file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register at my.monster.com
2. Upload a resume or other document in MS Word format
3. Get an error indicating that the document is not the correct file type.
4. Repeat step 2 using MS IE, and the document is uploaded correctly.

Actual Results:  
from the "rayjobs.com" site: 

Warning: The content type of your resume file doesn't match the content type you selected. Please check your selection and try again.

Expected Results:  
Files of the proper type should be uploaded.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I believe this was fixed in bug 306471.