On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 08:42 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > When I click on a pdf link in Firefox, I get a message saying the > helper application doesn't exist and to change that in preferences. The usual problem is that the source isn't telling you that it's a PDF file, but uses the generic binary "application/octet-stream" description. No doubt there's helper plugins for Firefox that can help you diagnose that, but you can just use Lynx (the text browser). Copy the address for a PDF file, type in lynx --head, then paste in the address. You can see the content-type description in the headers you get back from the webserver. e.g. lynx --head http://example.com/fake-test.pdf When you strike the same issue with PDFs in your email, simply look at the source code for the message, and look for a similar content-type header. If it's not a proper description, you'll strike problems. If you try to force the wrong filetype description to be the PDF type, you'll strike problems when something else uses that filetype description. A way around this is to use a handler in the middle, that will determine file types for itself. Such as specifying that gnome-open will handle all application/octet-stream files. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
