77215 - Unable to handle .xul files served from a web server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 46655

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Chak Nanga]

Go to http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/textimage.html 

and click on the link titled "Example 2.3.1". 

MOzilla comes up with a dlg box saying it does not know how to handle the mime 
type "application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml" 

Hyatt thinks that the server is sending out the correct MIME type and we may 
have a bug.

Hyatt : Please re-assign if you're not the owner....Thanks

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

That URL is sending out these headers to a 'Mozilla/5.0 ...' UA string:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK                            
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:08:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 01:50:30 GMT
ETag: "3ce81c-130-3ad8fe66"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 304
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xul
 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
... etc. ...


(Note: if I send out a file as mimetype 'text/xul' *but* give it a file 
extension of '.xulx', then the message is that we don't know how to handle
'text/xul' instead of the 'application/vnd.blah-blah+xul' mimetype.


Effectively, this is bug 46655, but this really needs some attention. (I think
we should either grandfather 'text/xul' irrespective of whether the xul is 
obsoleted by syntax changes, or we should map it to 'text/plain' and just 
show the content. Act fast, before the standards police arrive :-]).

Comment 2

[David Hyatt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46655 ***