Mike Helm wrote: > One of my colleagues has found a recent bug in bugzilla on this > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399188 > and it appears that firefox is ignoring the mime type and > looking at the .spc extension, and then dropping into > Windows file management.
I believe the present browser processing for files received via http is something like this: - if the MIME content type is known to the browser as a type it handles internally, (either in native browser code, or through extensions and add-ons/plugins) the browser handles the content internally, otherwise ... - If the MIME content type is known to be handled by another process (e.g. MIME content type registered in Windows, or in the browser as a "helper") then it is handled that way. There may be a dialog involved at this point. Otherwise ... - (on windows) the file name extension is looked up, and what ever process is associated with that file name extension is run to handle it. There may be a dialog involved at this step. Note that there is a possibility that a file will be downloaded with an unknown MIME content type, but when the file name extension is looked up, the MIME content type associated with that extension will be a type that is known to the browser. In this case, one might expect that the browser would handle the file internally, but it does not. This is a known bug, but I doubt that it's relevant to Thawte. I suspect that Thawte is downloading the file with a content type that is unknown to the browser, but is known to windows to be handled by Windows' own cert manager. I've seen that before. -- Nelson B _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
