RAR files being downloaded as .TXT
Tans
my fare share of searching for any kind of help on the issue.
Am using FF 1.5.0.1 - For the past approx 5 days, I have been downloading
many zip and rar files. I have had no problems whatsever before the past
week.
Zip files are being downloaded correct, but .RAR files are a different
story.
When I click a link to download any kind of rar file, I get the download
window asking if I would like to open the file or save to disk. Right away
in this window, I find a problem at the beginning stating:
"You have chosen to open (put file name here) which is a: Text Document
from: (website name here)"
The document is certainly far from a .txt document, it is a rar file.
At first, I tried to look into my FF Options to find under the Downloads
tab: "Dowload Actions - Firefox can automatically download or open files of
certain types." but where rar nor zip could be found. Ok.. so that's not it.
I also thought it may have to do with my File Types... perhaps a program had
edited what program I used for rar files (for whatever reason.. small
possibility) - Everything is as it should and both zips and rars are set to
open with WinAce.
I then HAD to test to see if this was happening just in firefox, or both IE
and FF... that way, I gathered this was a file type problem somewhere that I
missed some how if both weren't working. Downloading RAR files works
perfectly in IE. It even works fine using the IE extension in Firefox, but I
download so many RAR files, I can't be bothered to always turn on my IE
extension in firefox all the time in order to have it download properly. And
unfortunetly, I refuse to turn IE back into my default browser.
So here I am. At the end of things to think it could possibly. At the end of
my searches to find no information.
Would appreciate anyone's input on this issue. I'll try anything.. because
this is an annoying issue.
Thanks
Tans
gwtc
try saving the file to your hard drive instead of opening it.
Ron K.
See if you can get to the menus to try looking at the messages source.
Scroll down to look at he content type in the attachments data. That will
help determine if it is the server that is incorrectly sending the
attachment as MIME type text/plain.
--
Ron K.
Don't be a fonted, it's just type casting.
Tans
"gwtc" <TheNewGWTC-64-110-101-116-115-99-97-112-101-46-110-101-116> wrote in
message news:b4OdnQ8dsvUK6WTe...@mozilla.org...
>> in message news:b4OdnQ8dsvUK6WTe...@mozilla.org...
> try saving the file to your hard drive instead of opening it.
Have done that, and it wants to save it as a .txt document - and to save it
that way, I would have to continueously remove .txt and replace it with .rar
myself.
Tans
"Ron K." <kil...@gisco.net> wrote in message
news:V76dnSDT5qc...@mozilla.org...
I don't believe (could be wrong of course) that server would be sending
incorrect information since the RAR files can properly be downloaded with
IE, but not firefox.....? Unless somehow, IE recognizes the problem, but not
FF?
Tans
Tans
upload rar files to/from other sites, ex: yousendit.com - works well, no
probs, recognizes it's a rar file, not a text, or even tried uploading a
small rar file to the site server that was seeming to have the problem., and
it does seem to be either a server problem with the site or perhaps with the
uploader. Because I tried to download my own file and it also recognized
that the file was rar file.
At least I've found it doesn't seem to be a serious problem with FF and
that's it's not with all sites... possibly just a problem when "zipping" the
rar file or the uploader somehow.
Thanks for your help.
Tans
"Ron K." <kil...@gisco.net> wrote in message
news:V76dnSDT5qc...@mozilla.org...
Chris Ilias
> I don't believe (could be wrong of course) that server would be sending
> incorrect information since the RAR files can properly be downloaded with
> IE, but not firefox.....? Unless somehow, IE recognizes the problem, but not
> FF?
IE doesn't bother with MIME types. It looks at the extension.
IF the MIME type is incorrect, you need to tell the site author.
--
Chris Ilias
mozilla.test.multimedia moderator
Mozilla links <http://ilias.ca>
(Please do not email me tech support questions)
Ron K.
Additional comments here besides the off line response to poster.
The genieology of IE harks back to when it was an addin to MS WinWord. It
has always had the benefit of access to the Windows registry and the
registered file type associations. In Win98 MS did associate MIME also
with the file associations. In some cases the MS mime types are Virtual
types, not world standard MIME types. Thus, IE/OE/Ol are more adept at
file extension matching when MIME is broken or missing.
The incorporation of MIME to the WWW has been a two edged sword. It has
been great for helping to identify inline elements of HTML that need
support of plugins or helper apps. The bug has always been that servers
must be properly configured. Any sloppiness and this is an example of the
results.