RE: opening pdf files

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:52 -0500, Blackwell, Steve @ GSI wrote:
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Hooper
> To: Blackwell, Steve @ GSI
> Cc: 'epiphany-list gnome org'
> Sent: 1/16/2007 4:45 PM
> Subject: Re: opening pdf files
> 
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:25 -0500, Blackwell, Steve @ GSI wrote:

> >    Download this file?
> > 
> >    File type "unknown".
> > 
> >    You have no application able to open "whatever.pdf".
> >    You can download it instead.
> > 
> > The interesting thing is why epiphany thinks that the file type is
> > "unknown".

> Hmmm... if I open the same mail message in IE and click on the link it open
> just fine.

I'll hypothesize that it's because IE is guessing based on the file's
extension. That is, IE is deliberately ignoring what the web server is
asking it to do with the file.

So there's a bug in IE and there's a bug on the website. It is of course
debatable whether mimicking the IE bug is a good course of action. At
the moment, in Epiphany, the choice has been to not duplicate the bug.

-- 
Adam Hooper
adamh densi com