[Bug 245776] Re: cant run installation program
Anton Gyllenberg
anton at iki.fi
Sat Oct 25 11:59:10 UTC 2008
I have got this a couple of times with PDF files. The file is
downloaded, it can be found intact in the tmp directory, but it will not
open with the default Document viewer. IIRC, explicitly selecting a
viewer (/usr/bin/xpdf of /usr/bin/evince) opened the document fine.
Right now I cannot reproduce the problem exactly, but can get similar results:
1. Create a new firefox profile for testing and use that.
2. Browse to a pdf document that is served using an unknown, wrong content-type, e.g., 'application/x-foobar'.
3. Select "Open with Document Viewer (default)
-> Gives error message "/tmp/test.pdf could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences."
4. Doubleclick (or select retry) for the entry in the download manager
-> Gives the error message: "/tmp/test.pdf could not be saved, because you cannot change the contents of that folder."
FF3 is giving the wrong error message here. Probably the same applies to
the original problem. There is of course nothing that ties this to some
specific file type like pdfs or debs.
I am attaching a simple python script to easily serve files in the current directory using whatever content-type. Use it like:
MIMETYPE=application/x-foobar python mthttpserver.py
and then browse to http://localhost:8000/
On a side note, why does FF3 offer the default viewer when it knows
there is no associated helper?
** Attachment added: "http server script for mime-type testing"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18885068/mthttpserver.py
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cant run installation program
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245776
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