the-edmeister wrote:Same file with inconsistent results when clicking the hyperlink.
I was unable to view what MIME Type was attached to the file because both webmail interfaces use a hyperlink to the file which obfuscates any data attached to the file. The only helper I have installed is the Page Info Button.
It looks to me that this 'new' dialog and action-less feature is a regression which doesn't act uniformly and/or consistently.
Thank you, Ed. I ran into this on hyperlinks and do not have the tools to find the MIME type that Thumper has found. I do remember in the Trunk builds though someone suggesting an easy way to discover this information - was it 'View Source' or 'DOM Inspector'? Or possibly some addon I can't even think of right now. Page Info also came to mind but I don't ever remember it being able to determine the MIME type of a target.
And, well, Thumper, I only jumped to call it a regression b/c I remember specifically reading last November when this occurred that it was going to affect .exe file types only as a security precaution. No mention of the open radio button being disabled due to the MIME type of a file being
application/octet-stream. And since that day, if I hear if it is affecting any other file type by graying out the open option then wouldn't that constitute a regression?
The only scenario when it wouldn't was if this was by design and I don't believe it was.
So, while honestly I haven't experienced the new dialog for myself, that's not what I'm complaining about. I just know for sure this was applied to .exe and no other file types. Maybe the bug or regression we're seeing is that some file types are getting mistakenly pathed as application/
octet-stream by either the browser's own doing or the server sending the wrong mime type? But it can't be the server b/c it worked for him on the same webmail in 1.5.0.6.... So, octet-stream is only used for exe's, right?
Thanks for confirming the blacklisting, Thump. I too had seen this mentioned somewhere by devs but had also thought the functionality for this carried no real effect nowadays.