Bug 186241

Summary:	Error when clicking on linked PDF in firefox
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Component:	evince	Assignee:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	alex, edgar.hoch, esr
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Description Nils Philippsen 2006-03-22 14:48:21 UTC

Description of problem:

When I click on a PDF file/link in firefox it tries to display it via
mozplugger/evince, but I get the error message "Unable to open document --
Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

evince-0.5.1-3
mozplugger-1.7.3-2.2.1
firefox-1.5.0.1-9

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on linked PDF in firefox
  
Actual results:
Evince window gets drawn inside firefox, but I get the error message as
described above.

Expected results:
PDF gets displayed

Additional info:
When I subsequently issue "evince http://webserver/path/to/doc.pdf", the
document gets downloaded and displayed fine.

Comment 1 Eric Raymond 2006-05-05 13:48:42 UTC

This bug reproduces on my AMD-64 but not on my 32-bit laptop.

Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2006-05-05 15:27:15 UTC

NB: I have this problem both on my 32-bit Intel Pentium M laptop and 32-bit AMD
Athlon desktop.

Comment 3 Alex Lancaster 2006-06-07 01:42:30 UTC

Confirming on my 32-bit Intel laptop.  This also affects all other browsers I've
tried: galeon and epiphany both give the same error.

Comment 4 Alex Lancaster 2006-06-08 07:37:43 UTC

I can duplicate this outside firefox/galeon/epiphany.  The underlying problem
appears to be that evince apparently isn't using file magic to check that it's
really a PDF. i.e. if the PDF doesn't have the .pdf extension when downloaded
via mozplugger it is seen as the default binary type:

$ cp doc.pdf /tmp/doc

$ evince /tmp/doc

get same problem as doing it via a browser.

Comment 5 Alex Lancaster 2006-06-08 07:51:35 UTC

See also discussion here:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg02134.html

Comment 6 Alex Lancaster 2006-06-08 09:31:35 UTC

This looks to be a duplicate/special case of bug #193582.

Comment 7 Alex Lancaster 2006-06-29 15:55:56 UTC

Can this be closed as a duplicate of bug #193582?  shared-mime-info-0.17-1.fc5.2
has been pushed for fc5 which fixes this.

Comment 8 Kristian Høgsberg 2006-06-29 18:57:17 UTC

Done, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193582 ***