By default, many web servers are configured to report a MIME type of text/plain or application/octet-stream for unknown content types. As new content types are invented or added to web servers, web administrators may fail to add the new MIME types to their web server's configuration. 'unknown' means 'unknown'. 'octet-steam' means 'bunch of bytes in a row', which you might know better as the term 'binary file'. All in all not that helpful, unfortunately. I'm trying to get.jpg files from emails. I sent myself an email with a photo. I am using the Idle3 shell. After logging in, the following successfully saves the photo to my computer. 'unknown' means 'unknown'. 'octet-steam' means 'bunch of bytes in a row', which you might know better as the term 'binary file'. All in all not that helpful, unfortunately.
A number of us are using a private site where we run an application offline. The application offers a download button so that we can take a snapshot of our offline progress, a sort of backup. When we go back on-line we can either upload the the information from the application or we can upload the backup files.
The problem is that whenever we hit the download button we always get the extra dialog asking if we want to save or cancel the file download. This might sound a little ridiculous, but we really do not want to have to move the mouse to the new dialog and have to click the Save button.
The file mime type is application/octet-stream, there is no file extension.
Is there a way to change the Firefox configuration so that this dialog does not appear?
Thank you.
Apologies, but I have deleted all of the system information gathered automatically because I am not able to submit this request from the machines where the problem occurs.
What Is An Application / Octet Stream File
Those system are:Ubuntu 14:04.3 LTSFirefox 40.0.3