[Bug 1585774] Re: Cannot save.jpg from web page

[Olivier Tilloy]

Yes, this is a known limitation of the current architecture: the content
hub relies on the advertised mime type to determine which applications
can receive the file. If no explicit mime type is provided by the
server, it tries to infer it from the filename.

In the case of downloading inside the browser, the advertised mime type
(or lack thereof) shouldn’t matter, but if no filename is provided, the
browser still need to assign one. Checking the first few bytes of the
downloaded file would help in determining the real mime type, but
inferring an extension from it is not necessarily trivial.

I’m adding an ubuntu-download-manager task to the bug report, in case we
can improve the situation in that component.

Out of curiosity, before the developer at Geograph applied that fix,
what filename did other browsers suggest for the image, in their "Save
As" dialog?

** Also affects: ubuntu-download-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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