When I tried to download Shockwave 8 Player from the above URL, I got an error message that said: Your are about to download a file of type "application/mac-binhex40". This file is unrecognized by Netscape .... I chose to save the file anyway, but it would not open and execute properly.

More of a file download issue. Changing to Networking.

assign

file download ->law

Use Netscape's problem report form to report bugs with Netscape 6. Before filing these bugs here, you must reproduce it in a recent build of Mozilla to make sure the problem hasn't been fixed already.

Yep, thanks David ! Verif.

Actually, I am reopening this since I note the problem in today's build. After the installer is downloaded, trying to install the plugin launches mozilla but no dialog boxes load and the installation does not proceed. Using 4.x version, the installation proceeds fine and plugin installs properly.

Confirming. Gerv

BTW, FYI, Shockwave recently mailed me to say that they had no plans to support unreleased browsers, when I complained about some of their client sniffing... Gerv

Move to M18 target milestone.

cc: kiwi

I've tried some code that queries Internet Config for the proper creator code for .hqx files but it doesn't seem to work. I can't see .hqx on my Mac's filetype setup dialog so maybe it's just me. My code tries to call ICMapFilename, passing the name of the file that's about to be stored to. I get error code -37 (invalid file name?). I'll be talking to Chris Mcafee about this next week since he's working on the "helper apps" problem in a more general sense (I think).

I really want to hand this off to a Mac expert. I'm not sure this will be handled via "helper apps" support.

Bill, is Gordon doing the Mac backend work? If so, should he get this?

Re-assigning to our Mac expert. :-) Paul, see what you can do later to help Bill out with this. Thanks.

Changing to "nsbeta2-" because we can ship beta without this.

cc'ing Eric Krock since the engineers he works with are responsible for making plugins work - he might know another engineer who can help us solve this. (Don, does this really fall on your team or to the plugins team?) nsbeta3 to keep it on the radar. We want to get this right sooner or later even if we have to live without it for beta2.

This isn't a plugin issue. The problem is that the downloaded file does not have the proper "creator." Where do we stand with helper apps on Mac? If we've got the helper app database, then it should be relatively easy to do the Mac thingy to assign that app to the file. Moving to the [nsbeta3+] queue. Paul, if this is blocked by missing helper-app functions, then we can enter the blocking bug #.

Adding Shrirang who was doing plug-in QA last time I checked to cc: list.

Why not use a .xpi package to install this, as we do Flash in the product? We host Shockwave on the Netcenter SmartUpdate site so surely there isn't a legal issue with doing that...

Peter Grandmaison <pgrandmaison@macromedia.com> is available to help with this bug if needed.

PDT agrees P1

Putting [pdtp1] in whiteboard

Checked in fix for 43585 today. Now, we download the file, and Stuffit Expander is called on the file, resulting in the Shockwave Installer application (assuming your Internet Config is setup to do this, which it should be default). FYI, downloaded files now show up in your Internet download folder. To change this preference, go to Apple Menu->Control Panels->Internet, click on "Web" tab, in the middle there is a "Download Files To:" preference.

After reading this bug report again, I'd say that by fixing 43585, this bug is fixed also. So should work with today's (9/7/00) daily build

Using today's build on mac (2000090704m18) this is working. Shockwave player and flash plugins get installed.marking verified.

verif