Firefox file associations

[shimi]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:
>
> >
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3
> >
> > File types are added to the list after first being seen by the browser
> and
> > acted upon...
>
> I mentioned this article in my original post. There is no plugin for
> csv files (or for txt file, or for shell scripts, or for C files - all
> of these and more are treated as text, I guess), and there is no
> save/open dialog for them that would allow me to set the action.
>
>
I see...

What happens if you force it? i.e. use a PHP script that has:

<?php

header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=whatever.csv');

?>

and browse to it?

If you don't have a server with a PHP to host this on, I can create such a
URL for you...

-- Shimi
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