[Savannah-hackers] [support #102636] Patch manager attached file MIME type

[David Allouche]

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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=102636>
Project: Savannah
Submitted by: David Allouche
On: Fri 11/28/2003 at 17:36

Category:  Web Interface
Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  7 - Major
Resolution:  None
Assigned to:  None
Originator Email:  
Status:  Open


Summary:  Patch manager attached file MIME type

Original Submission:  First, I would like to thank you all for the work on the 
Savannah code base. The new patch manager is _much better_ than the older.



I'd like to report (and complain :-) about two problems which are probably 
related:



1. Old patches have been "htmlized", that is characters like '"', '<' and '>' 
have been replaced by entity references "&quot;", "&lt;" and "&gt;" that is 
really a big problem, since this data has basically been corrupted (though it 
seems automatically recoverable).



2. Though old patches are still viewable from inside a browser, newly submitted 
patches seem to be sent as "application/octet-stream" (according to the dialog 
mozilla pops up when clicking an attached file link) instead of "text/plain" 
(or some more specific appropriate MIME type).



The net result of this second problem, is that new patches can no longer be 
viewed from inside a browser.



You can check these on the texmacs patch manager:

  old patch:

https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?item_id=1967&item_file_id=1966

  new patch:

https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?item_id=2368&item_file_id=2376



Thanks for your help.











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<http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=102636>

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