Maya wrote:
> I am facing a problem displaying contents with any MIME types which
> need a plugin. I am testing it with PDF files but I think it will
> pretty much be the same for any other applications.

This is displaying them in a browser window, not via the <object> or <embed> 
elements, right?

> Since the original URL is encypted in the HTTP request, Firefox does
> not set the appropriate content-type.

I'm not sure what you mean here.  What's encrypted where, and what does that 
have to do with the content-type?

> If I set the content-type, explicitly (for testing), in
> OnStartRequest() of the StreamListener

Of your decrypting stream listener, I assume?

> At what point, are the plug-ins selected when we are listening using
> the StreamListener ?

I'm not sure what you're asking here...

> Are there any additional checks made by Firefox
> to determine whether a file is a valid PDF file (other than checking
> the beginning data) ?

There are no checks made by Firefox at all.  The message you're getting is from 
the plug-in itself -- it's getting data that doesn't start with "%PDF-".

-Boris
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