56898 - "view-source:" URLs handle mime type

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77337

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Olivier Mengué]

The "view-source:" URL usually used to view the source of HTML pages can not be
used to view files which have a mime type not assigned to Mozilla.

Example:
view-source:http://www.netscape.com/h.js

This show the "Dowloading" dialog box: "This file has mime type
application/x-javascript and cannot be viewed using Mozilla. You can open it
with another application, or save it to disk.". "Open using..."/"Save to disk"

The view-source: URLs are sometimes used by web sites authors to show source
code in a separate window without requiring server-side processing to transform
the code in HTML.




Suggestion of correction:
any file should be viewable as source in the "View source" box, whatever the
mime type is.

Suggestion of future improvement:
the mime type could still be used to select the best source viewer. For example:
colored HTML for text/html, colored XML for text/*-xml, text for text/*
hex viewer for else

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to Networking.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

->me

Comment 3

[Adam Katz]

dup of 15372 ?  seems to carry a bit of extraneous info as well as good
suggestions.  perhaps 15372 is a dup of this?

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15372 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

->
Really belongs in file handling.
HTTP is for problems w/ http: urls, not view-source: urls :)

Comment 6

[benc]

The dupe is in Parser, but that happened before this component was created.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

fixed long since.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77337 ***