From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] bugzilla: problem with "content-disposition" for patch files References: <20100410001231.01b7d6f5@surf> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2010-04-09, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:29:55 +0000 (UTC) > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> This may seem trivial, but it's getting to be pretty annoying. >> >> When you click on a link to a patch file in bubzilla, the >> content-disposition is sent as "attachment". This disables the >> ability of Firefox users to set a default action for that file type. >> >> Can this be fixed? > > I agree, this would be nice. I had hoped there might be a way to fix it in Firefox, but the Firefox dev's really have a stick up their rear on this one. They're absolutely positive they're right and everybody else in the world is wrong. People have been asking for this to be fixed in Firefox for years and years (other browsers don't seem to have this "feature"), but the Firefox devs are sticking to the "one true path" with a religious fervor. From the looks of their bug-tracking system, they must have one dev who's full time job is to change the state of new reports of this problem to "duplicate" and tell all of the posters of "me too, please fix this" comments to frack off. They claim letting users set a default handler for files that are "content-disposition: attachment" would be "security problem" -- though I've read and was completely unable to follow their reasoning. If only they put as much effort into plugging other security holes as they put into defending this feature. I think it's a case of "security problem" being double-speak for "the bug doesn't bother us, so we're not going to fix it." So, the only hope is that bugzilla could be changed. [I don't really understand the reasoning behind bugzilla's setting the content-disposition to "attachment" either, but I haven't looked into that side of it.] -- Grant