Privacy Browser Android

Soren Stoutner wrote in #note-1:

I was able to upload the Test.mobi file here using Privacy Browser Android 3.17. Is this problem limited to singlelogin.re, or are you also not able to uoload .mobi files using Privacy Browser on redmine.stoutner.com?

• specific to singlelogin.re
• attached .mobi on redmine
• off-topic_ now eveeybody knows, what
  am i doing ;)

jindam vani wrote in #note-2:

• specific to singlelogin.re

Can you upload .mobi files on singlelogin.re using other browsers?

• off-topic_ now eveeybody knows, what
  am i doing ;)

I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to here, but I deleted the attachments in case they contained sensitive information.

Soren Stoutner wrote in #note-6:

jindam vani wrote in #note-2:

• specific to singlelogin.re

Can you upload .mobi files on singlelogin.re using other browsers?

yes, firefox android 126.0 (Build #2016019896)

• off-topic_ now eveeybody knows, what
  am i doing ;)

I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to here, but I deleted the attachments in case they contained sensitive information.

• it was open access ebook
  with cc license

Websites can restrict which files the file picker allow you to upload.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/file

My guess is that either 1) Privacy Browser is getting a different file list restriction based on some aspect of its settings or 2) WebView is having a hard time understanding the instructions.

Let's see if we can narrow it down by looking at the following three things.

1. What domain settings are you using for singlelogin.re? Most interestingly, which user agent are you using?

2. Do you experience the same problems with another browser based on WebView, like Lightning?

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/

3. Please post a copy of About > Version from Privacy Browser.

Based on the fact it works with Lightning and not with Privacy Browser, I wonder if changing the User Agent would make a difference. Try WebView Default or Firefox on Android and see if that resolves the issue.

Soren Stoutner wrote in #note-10:

Based on the fact it works with Lightning and not with Privacy Browser, I wonder if changing the User Agent would make a difference. Try WebView Default or Firefox on Android and see if that resolves the issue.

• none, i tried all user agents

Let me look into this more deeply and see if I can figure out what is going on.

Soren Stoutner wrote in #note-14:

It turns out that the problem is that Android's intent system only allows one mime type to be specified in an Intent (which opens the file picker). So, when a website requested more than one file extension, only the first was passed to the file picker (converted to a mime type).

The solution is to ignore the file types requested by the website and allow the file picker to select any file (not the best solution in my opinion, but it seems to be the only answer Android allows and is what other browsers are doing).

aha.... fenix devs are reluctant to
add option for opening file but never
disclosed reason _;)

Fixed in commit: https://gitweb.stoutner.com/?p=PrivacyBrowserAndroid.git;a=commitdiff;h=f40bd0b76668119cdf4043f1fafecafb1a0869b9;ds=sidebyside

I will release 3.18 with this fix in a few days.

thank you ;)

• just now tested on 3.18
• browser is recognizing
  .mobi files ;)
• thank you

You're welcome.