[gentoo-user] OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved...

[gentoo-user] OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved...

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

there is one feature of forefox, which bugs me:
On the same site (www.blenderswap.com) I click
to files to download. One is a *.blend, the
other one is a *.rar.
When I click the *.blend, the file gets downloaded
and stored on my hd at once -> bad!
When I click the *.rar, the file gets NOT downloaded
at once and instead I am offered a dialog, which
asks what to do.

I looked into Preferences->Application, which lists
filetypes and the according action and DONT find
an entry for *.blend files.

Where can I change the action selected by Firefox
which gets executed for a certain filetype else?

Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Best regards,
mcc

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved...

[Hartmut Figge]

meino.cramer@gmx.de:

> there is one feature of forefox, which bugs me:
> On the same site (www.blenderswap.com) I click
> to files to download. One is a *.blend, the
> other one is a *.rar.
> When I click the *.blend, the file gets downloaded
> and stored on my hd at once -> bad!
> When I click the *.rar, the file gets NOT downloaded
> at once and instead I am offered a dialog, which
> asks what to do.
> 
> I looked into Preferences->Application, which lists
> filetypes and the according action and DONT find
> an entry for *.blend files.

What happens depends on the Content-Type with which the server delivers
the file. Here is an example.

http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/

Both files are identical text files, but hm.blend1 comes with text/plain
and hm.blend2 comes with text/hafi. The last is unknown *g*, so it will
be asked what to do. text/plain is well known and the browser will
display its content.

> Where can I change the action selected by Firefox
> which gets executed for a certain filetype else?

Look at the Content-Type of your *.blend. One way to do this is with
HEAD which is part of libwww-perl.

hafi@i5 ~ $ HEAD http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/hm.blend2
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "942355-b-4a590cf7e03b1"
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 11
Content-Type: text/hafi
Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:01:21 GMT
Client-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT
Client-Peer: 85.13.136.212:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

Hartmut
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved...

[meino.cramer]

Hartmut Figge <h.figge@gmx.de> [11-06-13 07:32]:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de:
> 
> > there is one feature of forefox, which bugs me:
> > On the same site (www.blenderswap.com) I click
> > to files to download. One is a *.blend, the
> > other one is a *.rar.
> > When I click the *.blend, the file gets downloaded
> > and stored on my hd at once -> bad!
> > When I click the *.rar, the file gets NOT downloaded
> > at once and instead I am offered a dialog, which
> > asks what to do.
> > 
> > I looked into Preferences->Application, which lists
> > filetypes and the according action and DONT find
> > an entry for *.blend files.
> 
> What happens depends on the Content-Type with which the server delivers
> the file. Here is an example.
> 
> http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/
> 
> Both files are identical text files, but hm.blend1 comes with text/plain
> and hm.blend2 comes with text/hafi. The last is unknown *g*, so it will
> be asked what to do. text/plain is well known and the browser will
> display its content.
> 
> > Where can I change the action selected by Firefox
> > which gets executed for a certain filetype else?
> 
> Look at the Content-Type of your *.blend. One way to do this is with
> HEAD which is part of libwww-perl.
> 
> hafi@i5 ~ $ HEAD http://www.triffids.de/pub/blend/hm.blend2
> 200 OK
> Connection: close
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> ETag: "942355-b-4a590cf7e03b1"
> Server: Apache
> Content-Length: 11
> Content-Type: text/hafi
> Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:01:21 GMT
> Client-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:21:15 GMT
> Client-Peer: 85.13.136.212:80
> Client-Response-Num: 1
> 
> Hartmut
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> 
> 

Hi Hartmut,

Oh, yeah! GREAT! I didn't know of "HEAD" at all - this nice tool fixes
the problem at once! Great help, thank you very much ! :)))

Have a nice "Pfingstmontag" :)

Best regards,
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved...

[Adam Carter]

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>
> > Look at the Content-Type of your *.blend. One way to do this is with
> > HEAD which is part of libwww-perl.
>

Easier to just use 'wget -S <url>' if you dont have libwww-perl installed.

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[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Firefox - saved or not ot be saved...

[Hartmut Figge]

Adam Carter:

>> > Look at the Content-Type of your *.blend. One way to do this is with
>> > HEAD which is part of libwww-perl.
> 
> Easier to just use 'wget -S <url>' if you dont have libwww-perl installed.

wget -S --spider <url>, hm? ;)

Hartmut
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