323322 - Our webpage determines the Mime type of a file for example PDF. Using Firefox, the Mime type is not seen as PDF. Using IE, it is seen as a PDF. I did not see this problem in the list of current bugs.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 316143

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Coleen Haworth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

Our webpage determines the Mime type of a file for uploading, for example PDF. We first determine the Mime type in order to determine if we will allow this file to be uploaded. Using Firefox, the PDF Mime type is not seen as PDF. Using IE, it is seen as a PDF. I did not see this problem in the list of current bugs. Firefox 1.5 is installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp
2.Create an Account
3.Use dumb05 as your Conference ID
4.Click on the link Submit PDF for Checking link and upload a PDF
5.If the system sees the file as a PDF, it displays 1 of 99 and Checking PDF for IEEE Xplore compatibility. If it sees it as another file type, it will say converting to PDF.
6.With Firefox 1.5 (Gecko/20051111) the file is not seen as a PDF but as another source file type.

Actual Results:  
With Firefox 1.5 (Gecko/20051111) the file is not seen as a PDF but as another source file type.


Expected Results:  
Status is Checking PDF for IEEE Xplore compatibility because it is a PDF that was submitted.

Status is Checking PDF for IEEE Xplore compatibility because it is a PDF that was submitted.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

IE quesses the mime type sent by the serve. Firefox respects it. 
See <http://bclary.com/2004/09/26/boot-camp-content-type>
Not security sensitive. 

Since the site owner reported this, it is invalid instead of tech evangelism.

$ wget http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp?siteid=dumb05
--14:39:10--  http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp?siteid=dumb05
           => `log.asp@siteid=dumb05'
Connecting to 216.228.1.34:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9,225 (9.0K) [text/html]

100%[===================================>] 9,225         --.--K/s            

Comment 2

[crf]

The bug reported was that files sent by firefox don't show as pdf using their checker.

It doesn't say how the checker works. 

It wasn't about the mime types sent by the server. (Thought maybe its related ...)

///

I remember reading about bugs like this though ... (pdf corruption).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142517

Comment 3

[crf]

It's hard to help using the reporter's site. 

It is too much for the reporter to expect people to fill in all their personal information just to help the reporter with a bug.

Perhaps the reporter could provide a way to bypass all that junk.

Comment 4

[crf]

see also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316143

Comment 5

[Coleen Haworth]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
> Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
> Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
> Our webpage determines the Mime type of a file for uploading, for example PDF.
> We first determine the Mime type in order to determine if we will allow this
> file to be uploaded. Using Firefox, the PDF Mime type is not seen as PDF. 

Comment 6

[Coleen Haworth]

(In reply to comment #1)
> IE quesses the mime type sent by the serve. Firefox respects it. 
> See <http://bclary.com/2004/09/26/boot-camp-content-type>
> Not security sensitive. 
> Since the site owner reported this, it is invalid instead of tech evangelism.
>

Comment 7

[Coleen Haworth]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
> Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
> Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
> Our webpage determines the Mime type of a file for uploading, for example PDF.
> We first determine the Mime type in order to determine if we will allow this
> file to be uploaded. Using Firefox, the PDF Mime type is not seen as PDF. Using
> IE, it is seen as a PDF. I did not see this problem in the list of current
> bugs. Firefox 1.5 is installed.
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 8

[Coleen Haworth]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
> Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
> Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
> Our webpage determines the Mime type of a file for uploading, for example PDF.
> We first determine the Mime type in order to determine if we will allow this
> file to be uploaded. Using Firefox, the PDF Mime type is not seen as PDF. Using
> IE, it is seen as a PDF. I did not see this problem in the list of current
> bugs. Firefox 1.5 is installed.
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 9

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This bug was about something firefox sends, not something we detect on download. Might still be invalid (are we sending a correct encoding the site simply doesn't like?), but we should eval the right bug before determining that. reopening

Comment 10

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

That said, I uploaded a file and got the "1 of 99" message and "Status*:  	PDF Passed PDF Check; PDF is IEEE Xplore-compatible" so it looks like it's working to me. I put in fake information to create the account so I didn't get to see what the emailed response was.

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download a PDF sent as "application/unknown" (use http://philringnalda.com/mtests/uploadtype/unknown/index.pdf if you don't have a misconfigured server handy)

2. Choose to open it in Acrobat, and to "Do this automatically...".

3. Upload a PDF to something that will tell you the mime type your browser sent, like http://philringnalda.com/mtests/uploadtype/

(4. Figure out which entry in Tools - Options - Downloads - View & Edit Actions is the one for application/unknown, by choosing Change Action and looking at the gray text at the top of the dialog, and delete that one, and try uploading again, until you've deleted every non-application/pdf entry you created because of every misconfigured server you've ever encountered.)

At which point, as crf says, you've found bug 316143

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316143 ***