[Bug 84880] Re: firefox uploads files with wrong mimetype

[John Vivirito]

sergio.callegari wrote:
> WalterNicholls wrote:
>   
>> I have a possible solution - look at mimeTypes.rdf (see below)
>>
>> I can confirm this problem, and while trying to find a fix, I came
>> across this bug. There are also numerous logged on bugzilla.mozilla.org.
>>
>> For the record: On Kubuntu Hardy, running under KDE3, Firefox version
>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071717
>> Firefox/3.0.1.  Plenty of extensions none of which I think are relevant.
>>
>> Uploading PDF attachments to PHPList (phplist.com), they come through as
>> application/binary. Konqueror does it fine.  This is a serious problem,
>> because phplist does not provide a way to change the mime type of an
>> attachment (except a direct database edit, ouch). I can't just use
>> Konqueror because that doesn't support FCKEditor for rich text editing.
>>
>> "file" command reports PDF document, version 1.3, /etc/mime.types and
>> all that look ok.
>>
>> HOWEVER I had ported my firefox profile across from a Windows machine, I
>> don't know what happened to that there, but in my profile directory,
>> mimeTypes.rdf contained this gem:
>>
>>       <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/binary"
>>                    NC:value="application/binary"
>>                    NC:editable="true"
>>                    NC:fileExtensions="pdf"
>>                    NC:description="Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document">
>>
>> I've edited this to instead say:
>>
>>      <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/pdf"
>>                    NC:value="application/pdf"
>>                    NC:editable="true"
>>                    NC:fileExtensions="pdf"
>>                    NC:description="Adobe Acrobat Document">
>>
>> Now file upload works.
>>
>>   
>>     
> ... weird... I happen to have multiple entries for files with a pdf 
> extension.  One of them says "application/x-pdf", onother one 
> "application/binary" and another one "application/octetstream".
>
> So our problem might be the consequence of the usage of older firefox 
> version that for some reasons wrote wrong things (or things in the wrong 
> order) in the file.
>
> I believe that we need to find out if a clean profile autogenerated by 
> the latest firefox shipped with Ubuntu creates the correct entry for pdf 
> files.
> If it does, then we do not have a bug with ubuntu's latest firefox.  We 
> have just something to put in the wishlist: namely a way to manage the 
> mimetype file when something goes wrong.
>
> Conversely, if a clean profile autogenerated by the latest firefox 
> shipped with Ubuntu creates an uncorrect entry for pdf files (binary, 
> octetstream), then we have a bug.
>
>   
Can you please list the links here for the upstream bugs that you think
fit this bug.

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246



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