From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001121 BuildID: 2000112108 Content of type text/directory; profile=vCard should be recognized as a vCard object and handled the same way as content of type text/x-vcard. RFC 2425 establishes the text/directory MIME type. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: View a vCard attachment whose MIME type is set to text/directory; profile=vCard instead of text/x-vcard Actual Results: attachment is displayed as raw text Expected Results: attachment should be displayed with fancy vCard formatting http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2425.txt

Seems to display the same as in IE, at least on build 2000121112...

This is a RFE changing summary and marking NEW.

reassigning to ducarroz.

For correctness, Mozilla should use the correct MIME type (text-directory; profile=vCard) for writing/sending vCards too (Mozilla currently uses text/x-vcard). Would this break compatibility with 4.x or other third-party applications?

re-assign to sspitzer

Yes, this would break comapatibility with all old applications. So conservative solution would be to add "text/directory; profile=vcard" as an alternative for text/x-vcard in order to make mozilla recognize new applications (pine) and prepare it for future switch to standardised content type. It may happen quickly--in similar case of application/x-pkcs12 versus application/pkcs12 Microsoft's Outlook switched and all old applications were in problems. One step further (not knowing if it is worthy work) would be to add prefs.js option, tnat would have three values--version default (compiled in a binary), text/x-vcard and text/directory; profile="vcard". This would allow a switch for people who are not dependig on readability of their vCards (personal use, maybe) and give those "developers" who do not read standards, but only study data going through the Internet, the idea that text/directory exists.

I don't have a full build system so I was not able to test this patch to see whether it builds and works properly.

Comment on attachment 150612 [details] [diff] [review] proposed UNTESTED patch to recognize MIME type application/directory; profile=vCard as vCard content patch untested

corrected version of patch, still untested

Comment on attachment 150646 [details] [diff] [review] proposed UNTESTED patch to recognize MIME type application/directory; profile=vCard as vCard content patch is obsolete and was never tested anyway

(Jim, contact me offline) related Bug 29106 - vCard in address book RFC2426

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard >The standard Internet media type for a vCard (often referred to as its mime type) >is:[1] > text/vcard >As of version 4.0 specification, other media types known to have been used >previously are now deprecated, including:[1] > text/x-vcard > text/directory;profile=vCard > text/directory >[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350

in the spirit of being conservative about what we generate and liberal about what we accept, we should handle the deprecated type and display the v-card.