660510 - When opening a torrent default action is not being performed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 453455

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[George R. Goffe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

When I open a link to a .torrent file, I get a popup which has the desired action. I choose open by ktorrent. Below that is a check box which says "Do this automatically for files like this from now on." I check this box and poke the "ok" button. When opening the next .torrent file, I get the popup again... this time with the check box checked. It appears that the "default" action is not happening. Is this a server issue? This works on some sites but not on others.



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Mardeg]

Yes it is a server issue, they shouldn't be sending the HTTP header "content-disposition: attachment" as that was originally meant as an email mime header.

However the reality is more and more web servers are doing this, and your end user experience should be what matters