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

[Mathieu Roy]

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[support #102636] Latest Modifications:

Changes by: 
                Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>
'Date: 
                sam 29.11.2003 à 13:48 (Europe/Paris)

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1) I need to check whether it is a migration problem or it it is not just the 
download output which wrongly make that conversion.



2) If I remember well, we previously encounter that problem but the conclusion 
reached was that this problem is browser specific. Apparently some browser does 
not, at file upload, provide the appropriate information regarding the file 
mime type. In that case, the more neutral choice is to pick 
"application/octet-stream"  ; "text/plain" could create more problematic 
situations with binaries (pictures etc).








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[support #102636] Full Item Snapshot:

URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=102636>
Project: Savannah
Submitted by: David Allouche
On: ven 28.11.2003 à 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have been replaced by entity references "&quot;", "&lt;" and "&gt;" that is 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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Date: sam 29.11.2003 à 13:48        By: yeupou
1) I need to check whether it is a migration problem or it it is not just the 
download output which wrongly make that conversion.



2) If I remember well, we previously encounter that problem but the conclusion 
reached was that this problem is browser specific. Apparently some browser does 
not, at file upload, provide the appropriate information regarding the file 
mime type. In that case, the more neutral choice is to pick 
"application/octet-stream"  ; "text/plain" could create more problematic 
situations with binaries (pictures etc).














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