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bug#22671: 25.0.90; EWW: Redirects go to Firefox (rather than EWW)
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raman |
Subject: |
bug#22671: 25.0.90; EWW: Redirects go to Firefox (rather than EWW) |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:33:15 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
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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