From: raman <raman@google.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 22671@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22671: 25.0.90; EWW: Redirects go to Firefox (rather than EWW)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:33:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91egcc62es.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1rx6vdf.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:07:40 +1100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
Thanks for looking at this Lars -- Agree with you -- sites out there do
all kinds of weird things with browser redirect. I had looked at the
headers with lwp-request and saw the first redirect -- and missed the
second redirect to the mp3 stream.
>
>> Sometimes, sites send a redirect with content-type text/html but that
>> text/html still gets handed to Firefox -- rather than EWW.
>> One possible reason is that /etc/mailcap on ubuntu/trusty has this line:
>> text/html; firefox -private-window %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
>>
>> It has that for the other xml/html related mime types as well.
>
> This has nothing to do with that, it turns out, but rather with the
> eww-use-external-browser-for-content-type variable. The URL redirects
> to something with "Content-Type: audio/mpeg", and that matches that
> variable, so it opens Firefox.
>
> I think that that's really confusing, though. It should just render it
> as a link, and then people can do what they want with it...
--
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2016-02-14 23:46 bug#22671: 25.0.90; EWW: Redirects go to Firefox (rather than EWW) raman
2016-02-16 6:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-16 16:33 ` raman [this message]
2017-01-24 22:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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