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	[Building Sakai] Firefox on Mac and PDF uploads by Branden :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hi all, We have a user using Firefox 3.5.4 on Mac, whose PDF uploads are being sent to Sakai as binary/octet-stream . Does anyone know of a browser work-around to fix this? We tried re-installing but it did not solve the issue. Also, since the type is 'binary/octet-stream', the "Change File Type" button causes a JS error, and I think its because 'binary' doesn't exist in the left-side dropdown. Thanks, Branden _______________________________________________ sakai-dev mailing list sakai-dev@... http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to sakai-dev-unsubscribe@... with a subject of "unsubscribe"
	Re: [Building Sakai] Firefox on Mac and PDF uploads by John Ansorge :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hi Branden, I think your user has been struck by mimeTypes.rdf "corruption" (it's not true corruption, it's just wrong information in a config file). This web page (http://cephas.net/blog/2007/01/05/firefox-mimetypesrdf-corruption/) explains it better than I could: http://cephas.net/blog/2007/01/05/firefox-mimetypesrdf-corruption/ wrote: Firefox mimeTypes.rdf corruption Came across another interesting bug today involving Firefox and mime types. Firefox uses a file called mimeTypes.rdf (stored in your profile folder) to keep track of a) what application should be opening the file you’re downloading and b) what kind of file it should tell a server it’s sending when you upload a file. And it works … for the most part. See, if you download a PDF file from a server that (incorrectly) states that the content-type of the file is ‘application/unknown’, choose to open it using Adobe Acrobat and then check the box that says ‘Do this automatically from now on’, Firefox will store that bit of knowledge away in mimeTypes.rdf. Now go and use a web application that you upload files to and which analyzes the content-type of the files you’re uploading and upload a PDF file. If you’re using LiveHTTPHeaders, you’ll notice that you’re not sending ‘application/pdf’ but instead ‘application/x-download’. It looks like this bug was filed in bugzilla a couple times and even acknowledged in their documentation, but has yet to be fixed. You can ‘fix’ the problem by deleting your mimeTypes.rdf file and restarting Firefox. Branden wrote: Hi all, We have a user using Firefox 3.5.4 on Mac, whose PDF uploads are being sent to Sakai as binary/octet-stream . Does anyone know of a browser work-around to fix this? We tried re-installing but it did not solve the issue. Also, since the type is 'binary/octet-stream', the "Change File Type" button causes a JS error, and I think its because 'binary' doesn't exist in the left-side dropdown. Thanks, Branden _______________________________________________ sakai-dev mailing list sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to sakai-dev-unsubscribe@collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"
	Re: [Building Sakai] Firefox on Mac and PDF uploads by Branden :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Thanks John. I thought this could have been the problem, but sources say that re-installing Firefox will refresh the rdf file. We re-installed, but no luck :( In the meantime, I've added 'binary/octet-stream=' to my content_type_extensions.properties file, so now if users are bitten in this way, they are able to manually change the content type in resources. Branden Hi Branden, I think your user has been struck by mimeTypes.rdf "corruption" (it's not true corruption, it's just wrong information in a config file). This web page (http://cephas.net/blog/2007/01/05/firefox-mimetypesrdf-corruption/) explains it better than I could: http://cephas.net/blog/2007/01/05/firefox-mimetypesrdf-corruption/ wrote: Firefox mimeTypes.rdf corruption Came across another interesting bug today involving Firefox and mime types. Firefox uses a file called mimeTypes.rdf (stored in your profile folder) to keep track of a) what application should be opening the file you’re downloading and b) what kind of file it should tell a server it’s sending when you upload a file. And it works … for the most part. See, if you download a PDF file from a server that (incorrectly) states that the content-type of the file is ‘application/unknown’, choose to open it using Adobe Acrobat and then check the box that says ‘Do this automatically from now on’, Firefox will store that bit of knowledge away in mimeTypes.rdf. Now go and use a web application that you upload files to and which analyzes the content-type of the files you’re uploading and upload a PDF file. If you’re using LiveHTTPHeaders, you’ll notice that you’re not sending ‘application/pdf’ but instead ‘application/x-download’. It looks like this bug was filed in bugzilla a couple times and even acknowledged in their documentation, but has yet to be fixed. You can ‘fix’ the problem by deleting your mimeTypes.rdf file and restarting Firefox. Branden wrote: Hi all, We have a user using Firefox 3.5.4 on Mac, whose PDF uploads are being sent to Sakai as binary/octet-stream . Does anyone know of a browser work-around to fix this? We tried re-installing but it did not solve the issue. Also, since the type is 'binary/octet-stream', the "Change File Type" button causes a JS error, and I think its because 'binary' doesn't exist in the left-side dropdown. Thanks, Branden _______________________________________________ sakai-dev mailing list sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to sakai-dev-unsubscribe@collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"