Firefox upload mimetypes

[Michael Johnson]

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On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Jochen Haemmerle wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I discovered a problem with my firefox 1.5.0.1 yesterday.
>
> I try to upload a zip-file to a webapplication and firefox sets the
> mimetype of the submitted content to "application/octetstream"  
> instead of
> using "application/zip" or "application/x-zip". The webapp doesn't  
> accept
> the "octetstream" mimetype. It expects "zip" or "x-zip"
> Using Konqueror(kde 3.5.1) it works just fine.
> Is there any way how I can configure my firefox to use these  
> mimetypes?

you sure it wasn't the web server that set it ?

>
> I'm running FreeBSD 6-Stable (if this has anything to do with it).
>
> Cheers
> Jochen

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