366899 - volzy.com - M4A sent as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Andrew O'Shaughnessy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9

http://www.m4a.com

M4A is a file extension used to represent the popular new international audio standard called MPEG 4 Audio.

Mozilla cannot find the correct plugin to display http://www.volzy.com


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.volzy.com
2. Select Install Missing PlugIns option
3. It cannot find the plugin
Actual Results:  
No plugin found.

Comment 1

[crf]

The web site seems badly written.
The m4a file isn't served with a proper mime type (the server says it is text/plain). So even if the html errors were fixed, mozilla would search for a plugin for text plain. I think it should be audio/mp4 (I'm not sure -- there was a lot of information on the net, and I'm not experienced enough to make sense of it :) ). At least, when I made a test page, mozilla thought to ask me to install apple quicktime (which I'm not installing) when I included an mp4 file in an object tag.

If it works in explorer, it is probably only because explorer is doing a heck of a lot of guesswork about what the author of the page was intending.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

For some reason, this seems to work fine in Camino trunk and Firefox 2, but the file

http://www.volzy.com/volzyjing.m4a

is definitely being served as text/plain, and it definitely shouldn't be. Andrew, you should let the webmaster know that it's broken.

Comment 3

[Daniel.S]

This works correctly now.