[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3225: Export file does not download in FF

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#3225: Export file does not download in FF
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 Reporter:  Viper007Bond    |        Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  defect          |       Status:  assigned   
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.1        
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.1        
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:                  |  
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Changes (by markjaquith):

  * status:  new => assigned
  * owner:  anonymous => markjaquith

Comment:

 Unfortunately, FF2.0RC2 is sniffing the content of the file, and serving
 it up to your designated feed reader (or apparently, viewing in-browser if
 no feed reader is designated), totally IGNORING the Content-Disposition
 header.  Even sending it as text/plain doesn't work (although it fools
 Safari, which appears to also ignore Content-Disposition for things sent
 with text/xml).

 See: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/010116.html

 One way to get around it might be to compress the XML into a gzip (or zip)
 file before offering it for download.  That'd speed up the download, but I
 don't know how much longer the server would have to chew on it, and people
 with 8MB for PHP might be in trouble... I know that PHPMySQL's compression
 option has bitten me before, leaving me with corrupted gzip files.

 Hopefully this behavior will be fixed by 2.0 release.

 Here's the Firefox bug ticket (opened a few days ago):

 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355332

 We still have to deal with Safari, however.

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