367484 - Wrong content type reported on binary-file HTTP upload

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Henrik Eiriksson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Firefox reports wrong content-type "application/octect-stream" when submitting a binary file (a Microsoft Excel file) through multipart/form-data form to Java servlet.

Internet Exploiter reports correct content-type: "application/octet-stream".

Java servlet is written with Wicket framework (http://wicket.sf.net).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create multipart/form-data form and Java servlet to receive upload file.
2. select binary Microsoft Excel file in form and upload to servlet.

Actual Results:  
Content-type "application/octect-stream" reported to servlet by browser is incorrect (has spelling error).

Expected Results:  
Content-type of upload file should be reported as: "application/octet-stream"

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Did you add a helper application for "application/octect-stream" in Firefox ?
The Form post is written via HTLM Form or also through a Java applet ?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no response