www/111613: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html will not post patch files

[Remko Lodder]

The following reply was made to PR www/111613; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Remko Lodder <remko at FreeBSD.org>
To: Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: www/111613: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html will not post
 patch	files
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:17:44 +0200

 Patrick Powell wrote:
 >> Number:         111613
 >> Category:       www
 >> Synopsis:       http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html will not post patch files
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       serious
 >> Priority:       low
 >> Responsible:    freebsd-www
 >> State:          open
 >> Quarter:        
 >> Keywords:       
 >> Date-Required:
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >> Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 15 14:30:01 GMT 2007
 >> Closed-Date:
 >> Last-Modified:
 >> Originator:     Patrick Powell
 >> Release:        FreeBSD 6.2
 >> Organization:
 > Astart Technologies
 >> Environment:
 > FreeBSD astart.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 12 13:59:28 PDT 2007     root at laptop.private:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP  i386
 >> Description:
 > When you try to submit a patch file AND you are using FireFox THEN  you get a 'bad file type' error message.
 > 
 > This is caused by the following lines in the web page:
 > 
 >  <label for="PATCH">And/or patch file (100KB max)</label>: <input id="PATCH" type="FILE"
 > name="patch" maxlength="102400" accept="text/*" /><br />
 > 
 > Firefox is a little too clever and determines that the MimeType is 'application/xxx'
 > 
 > Sigh... which it is...
 > 
 > Patrick ("Just when you think things cannot get worse, they get worse") Powell
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 >> Fix:
 > I dunno...  Remove the type restriction?
 >> Release-Note:
 >> Audit-Trail:
 >> Unformatted:
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 > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-www
 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-www-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
 
 This wont help, Devon submitted the check because the processing 
 utilities only process text/* and not application/*. If some thing
 explicitly sends the wrong data it will never get parsed and we will
 needlessly let you think that you can submit this.
 
 What you can do is copy/paste the patch inline or provide an URL
 where the data can be read.
 
 Thanks,
 remko
 
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