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iceweasel: "Opening" dialog gives wrong information to the user about the media type

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From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: iceweasel: "Opening" dialog gives wrong information to the user about the media type

Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:20:26 +0200

Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0.7esr-2
Severity: important

[Severity set to important because wrong information makes the user
wonders what is wrong with his config while the problem is somewhere
else, wasting his time, makes bug reports more obscure, and might
have security implications under particular cases.]

This problem occurs on various web sites (e.g. INRIAGForge). Here's
the same test with a permanent URL (and a fixed server config), but
have in mind that in practice, one can get that on an arbitrary web
site, without notice.

When downloading

  http://www.vinc17.net/test/mozbug-649321.pdf

I got a dialog box:

  Opening mozbug-649321.pdf

  You have chosen to open
    mozbug-649321.pdf
    which is a Portable Document Format (2.2 KB)
    from: ...

and it proposes to open the file with gv (whose PDF support is poor)
instead of the usual xpdf. The user might try to "fix" his config,
but this won't work. The real problem, hidden by Iceweasel to the
user, can be seen with "wget -S": the media type (Content-Type header)
is application/binary instead of the usual application/pdf. So,
Iceweasel is lying by saying that the document is a PDF; actually
it doesn't even regard it as a PDF internally, otherwise it would
have proposed to open it with xpdf (according to my settings).

Iceweasel should give the media type, at least when there is an
ambiguity.

This bug is related to bug 622353 (#622353 is about the internals,
this one is about the UI). Probably upstream too.

-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: -Global Styles- userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Add-on Compatibility Reporter
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: AlloCiné userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Bamboo Feed Reader
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{b2e69492-2358-071a-7056-24ad0c3defb1}
Status: enabled

Name: Cinémathèque Française userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Combine Stop/Reload buttons userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: DOM Inspector
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

Name: Dictionnaire français «Moderne»
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Different cursor for links that open in new windows userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Disable autocomplete userstyle
Status: user-disabled

Name: Disable marquee userstyle
Status: user-disabled

Name: DownloadHelper
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}
Status: enabled

Name: Flagfox
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{1018e4d6-728f-4b20-ad56-37578a4de76b}
Status: enabled

Name: Flashblock
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Font Finder
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Forecastfox
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{0538E3E3-7E9B-4d49-8831-A227C80A7AD3}
Status: enabled

Name: GLPI - assistance.ens-lyon.fr userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Google Search userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Greasemonkey
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}
Status: enabled

Name: HeadingsMap
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: IMDb userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Link Widgets
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Live HTTP headers
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{8f8fe09b-0bd3-4470-bc1b-8cad42b8203a}
Status: enabled

Name: Move tabbar to the bottom userstyle
Status: user-disabled

Name: Move tabbar to the left userstyle
Status: user-disabled

Name: Move tabbar to the right userstyle
Status: user-disabled

Name: Multiple row bookmark toolbar userstyle
Status: user-disabled

Name: Nerim userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Open in Browser
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: PeopleForCinema userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Pinger
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: QuickWiki
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{EE223D7A-F30F-11DD-8F0A-D2AD55D89593}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: SearchStatus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d57c9ff1-6389-48fc-b770-f78bd89b6e8a}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Showcase
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{89506680-e3f4-484c-a2c0-ed711d481eda}.xpi
Status: user-disabled

Name: Slashdot.org - Remove ads userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: SourceForge font size in comments userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: Stylish
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{46551EC9-40F0-4e47-8E18-8E5CF550CFB8}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Stylish-Custom
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Tab Mix Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{dc572301-7619-498c-a57d-39143191b318}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: TinEye Reverse Image Search
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: United States English Spellchecker
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Web Developer
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Wikipedia font size userstyle
Status: enabled

Name: X-Ray
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{3f1182ea-3243-4d32-8826-71fb1cc9c328}
Status: enabled

Name: allocine-imdb user-script
Status: enabled

Name: cac-imdb user-script
Status: enabled

Name: gTranslate
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{aff87fa2-a58e-4edd-b852-0a20203c1e17}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: itt-datetimes user-script
Status: enabled

Name: twitter-times user-script
Status: enabled

Name: us-to-iso8601 user-script
Status: user-disabled

-- Plugins information
Name: DivX® Web Player
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled

Name: DivX® Web Player
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled

Name: DjView-4.9
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nsdejavu.so
Package: djview-plugin
Status: enabled

Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled

Name: QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled

Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled

Name: VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 3.0.1)
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled

Name: VLC Web Plugin
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
Package: browser-plugin-vlc
Status: enabled

Name: VLC Web Plugin
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
Package: browser-plugin-vlc
Status: enabled

Name: Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled

Name: gxine starter plugin
Location: /usr/lib/gxine/gxineplugin.so
Package: gxineplugin
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  browser-plugin 2.0.0-1      amd64        multimedia plugin for web browser
ii  djview-plugin  4.9-2        amd64        Browser plugin for the DjVu image
ii  gnome-shell    3.4.2-1      amd64        graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii  gxineplugin    0.5.907-2    amd64        the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome
ii  iceweasel      10.0.7esr-2  amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  totem-mozilla  3.0.1-8      amd64        Totem Mozilla plugin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.3.3
ii  fontconfig          2.9.0-7
ii  libc6               2.13-35
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libnspr4            2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnspr4-0d         2:4.9.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.7.13-1
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.1-7
ii  procps              1:3.3.3-2
ii  xulrunner-10.0      10.0.7esr-2

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.0-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-2
pn  mozplugger             <none>

Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-4
ii  libc6                     2.13-35
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-7
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.2-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.1-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1
ii  libmozjs10d               10.0.7esr-2
ii  libnotify4                0.7.5-1
ii  libnspr4-0d               2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnss3-1d                2:3.13.6-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.26.0-3
ii  libreadline6              6.2-8
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.1-7
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.3-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0  0.28-4
ii  libgnomeui-0  2.24.5-2

-- no debconf information

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