Html Form : bad mime type for .zip files

Question

Situation

I have the following form :

<form action="/url/to/action" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <ul>
        <li><label>File1 <input type="file" name="file1" /></label></li>
        <li><label>File2 <input type="file" name="file2" /></label></li>
        <li><input type="submit" value="Import"/></li>
    </ul>
</form>

Using Firefox :

• when I upload a *.gz file, it is sent with mime-type : application/x-gzip
• when I upload a *.xml file, it is sent with mime-type : text/xml

This is ok. However :

• when I upload a *.zip file, it is sent with mime-type : text/html instead of application/zip

(I checked the content of the POST request in the Firebug console.)

I'm pretty sure it worked not that long ago.

Question

Is this bug related to Firefox ? Has anybody else experienced it ?

I'm running FF 29.0 / Ubuntu 14.04.

Answer 1

maybe try to add the mimetypes to a .htaccess like

AddType application/zip zip ZIP