[Bug 306249] Re: mp4 linspire test tries to open as "text file"

[Harald Sitter]

Good afternoon,

I just did some testing, and it appears to me, that the linspire server
just doesn't emit the correct mimetype. This is the real cause of this
problem, because Konqueror, or rather the underlying HTTP process relies
only on the mimetype to find the correct application to open a file. In
this case the mimetype is the default mimetype for everything on a web
server (text/plain), which makes Konqueror suggest to open it as a text
file.

You can see the same result if you run
  xdg-open http://images.linspire.com/file_types/v10_transition.mp4
which also uses mimetype to open that file, and also uses the default text editor rather than a media player.

When you run 
  wget http://images.linspire.com/file_types/v10_transition.mp4
you will notice that the server indeed emits a wrong mimetype.

>From my point of view this really ought to be fixed on the linspire
servers rather than in Konqueror, so I'll close this bug as invalid,
because basically Konqueror does exactly what it was meant to do - start
the mimetype's appropriate application. You probably want to report this
issue to Linspire. I think they also ship Konqueror as browser on their
CDs, so they really should fix it  (at least once they start using KDE
4).

Thank you for your report nonethless. 
Have a nice day :-)

** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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mp4 linspire test tries to open as "text file"
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