Closed Bug 376631 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

gzip compressed files assigned wrong mime type

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 52282

People

(Reporter: psusi, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

When you point the browser to a local file that is gzip compressed, such as index.html.gz, it thinks that the mime type is gzip, and wants to save it, instead of realizing that the mime type is text/html, with a Content-encoding of gzip.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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