Bug 162005 - Cannot download RPM to install - Firefox tries to play it as music
Summary: Cannot download RPM to install - Firefox tries to play it as music
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat...
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-29 01:01 UTC by P Wolf
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-06-29 12:45:51 UTC
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Description P Wolf 2005-06-29 01:01:43 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
Firefox opens an .rpm as media file, when in fact it is RPM package!  See referenced URL to download Adobe Reader.  "Download" button runs javascript that directs browser to an URL ending in .rpm but there is no chance to save it before the tab changes to a big gray media player.  The media tab should "save-as" if the rpm file is not playable media.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.0.4-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to download Adobe Reader from the referenced URL
2.Select (rpm) package
3.Press Download
  

Actual Results:  Tab briefly showed web page saying something like "download is starting automatically", then turned all gray and seemed to be displaying a media player

Expected Results:  I wanted to download the RPM file; it is an installable package.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Warren Togami 2005-06-29 01:49:57 UTC
This is not firefox's fault.  .rpm is associated with Real Player due to MIME
type associations on the web server.

Comment 2 Christopher Aillon 2005-06-29 12:45:51 UTC
Compare the output of:

> HEAD
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/firefox-1.0.4-4.i386.rpm
| grep Content-Type
Content-Type: application/x-rpm

vs. 

> HEAD
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-2.i386.rpm
| grep Content-Type
Content-Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin



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