Avoid having eww unexpectedly open external browsers

* lisp/net/eww.el (eww-render): Instead of opening unsupported
content types like audio/mpeg directly in an external browser
(which can be very confusing especially when something
redirects to a file like that), just display a simple
interstitial that people can choose to click on or not
(bug#22671).

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/net/eww.el b/lisp/net/eww.el
index 3e5d4467eac..172044a12ec 100644
--- a/lisp/net/eww.el
+++ b/lisp/net/eww.el
@@ -364,7 +364,14 @@ Currently this means either text/html or application/xhtml+xml."
            ((and eww-use-external-browser-for-content-type
                  (string-match-p eww-use-external-browser-for-content-type
                                  (car content-type)))
-            (eww-browse-with-external-browser url))
+            (erase-buffer)
+            (insert "<title>Unsupported content type</title>")
+            (insert (format "<h1>Content-type %s is unsupported</h1>"
+                            (car content-type)))
+            (insert (format "<a href=%S>Direct link to the document</a>"
+                            url))
+            (goto-char (point-min))
+            (eww-display-html charset url nil point buffer encode))
            ((eww-html-p (car content-type))
             (eww-display-html charset url nil point buffer encode))
            ((equal (car content-type) "application/pdf")