Re: Possible Evince -> Mozplugger Bug?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

Doesn't mozplugger provide the MIME type in http response?

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> Mime detection needs improvement, there is already a bug open about
> it. Right now we are just looking at the extension.
>
> A possible approach would be to do extension matching first (it's
> faster) and to fall back to content sniffing (slower) if the first
> mime type was not in the list of supported mime types.
>
> Anyone have thoughts about this?
>
> Marco
>
> On 4/28/05, Gord Busse <gordo bussefamily net> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > First of all I would like to thank the developers for such a great
> > product. I use it on my Ubuntu desktop to view PDF files all the time
> > now as it is very fast and I appreciate all of the features.
> > Unfortunately though, I am having a problem using it to view some PDF
> > files in Firefox via Mozplugger. Most PDF files work fine except for the
> > following situation.
> >
> > Before I explain in detail I just want to say that I have tested this
> > with Acrobat Reader 5 Plugin, Acrobat Reader 7 Plugin. XPDF and GPDF in
> > Ubuntu Hoary (5.04). I am running the latest version of Evince available
> > to me in Ubuntu which is version 0.1.9.
> >
> > Ok, now a little background. I have created a secure web based PDF
> > document viewing application using PHP. By secure I mean the users have
> > to log into the application via a preset account before they can view
> > any of the PDF documents. All PDF documents are stored outsite the web
> > accessible directories and when requested by a logged in user are then
> > passed through to the browser via a PHP script with the appropriate
> > application/pdf headers added.
> >
> > As I mentioned before when accessing these documents with Acrobat Reader
> > 5 plugin, Acrobat Reader 7 plugin, XPDF or GPDF via Mozplugger the
> > documents display correctly embedded in the corresponding application
> > embedded into Firefox via Mozplugger.
> >
> > But, when I try to access the documents using Evince embedded into
> > Firefox via Mozplugger I receive the following error dialog from Evince:
> >
> > Unable to open document
> > Unhandled MIME type: 'application/x-php'
> >
> > I have tried various configurations in Mozplugger and my PHP code and I
> > am convinced, since it works fine in all of the other applications that
> > this must be a bug with Evince?
> >
> > Anyways, if anyone is interested here is the configuration from my
> > mozpluggerrc file:
> >
> > application/pdf: pdf: PDF file
> > application/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
> > text/pdf: pdf: PDF file
> > text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
> >                 repeat noisy swallow(evince) file: evince "$file"
> >
> > And here is the actual snippet of PHP code that passes the file through
> > to the browser:
> >
> > function ShowDocument()
> > {
> >     $document = DOCUMENT_STORAGE_DIR."/".$this->documentPreviewFilename;
> >     header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
> >     header("Content-Length: " . filesize($document));
> >     header('Content-Disposition: inline;
> > filename="'.$this->documentPreviewFilename.'"');
> >     readfile($document);
> > }
> >
> > So, for now I am using Evince to view documents on my desktop and GPDF
> > to view documents via Firefox/Mozplugger. Hopefully this issue with
> > Evince will get figured out some time as given its speed and superior
> > interface I would really love to just use it and nothing else.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Gord
> >
> > --
> > Gord Busse <gordo bussefamily net>
> >
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