602186 - Viewing WebM requires modification to htaccess file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 546129

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Curtis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

In order for a website to show a WebM version of a movie file, the website must change their htaccess file.
This sometimes is not an option to the site creator.
Both Opera and Google Chrome show the WebM movie without modifying the htaccess file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a site hosting a webm version of a file (without its htaccess having the added mime type)
2. Notice the WebM does not load
3. 
Actual Results:  
WebM does not play, defaulting to a fallback if the site has it enabled

Expected Results:  
WebM should play

Both Opera and Google Chrome play the WebM file without a modified htaccess file

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

What mime type is used by the server?

Comment 2

[Mark Curtis]

I'm not sure how I would find that out.