Handling of Files / Filetypes in Opera Mobile: Could use some tweaking (configurability!)

Hello!

I am currently evaluating browsers on my new Android phone (prev. Symbian), and I found that Opera can not handle a certain "file usage" scenario, that is actually related to music streaming. So, I have a website based on the kPlayList PHP software. kPlayList basically serves a music collection from a harddrive onto the web, showing a similar folder/file-structure as on the actual machine where it is running. When you click a song, the system auto-generates an m3u playlist file, and sends it to the client browser (Opera Mobile in my case). In that m3u file, there is a http-based streaming link to a generated stream id on the server.

Now, currently only Firefox on Android seems to be able to correctly hand over the m3u file to a media player the user specifies (mplayer is perfect for this).

Opera can download the m3u, and then the user can choose to open the downloaded file in an application of choice, but this is not the desired behaviour. This should be a single-click experience!

Unfortunately, when trying to hand over the m3u file download to mplayer directly, Opera Mobile does NOT hand over the file, but the PHP-URL which you can download the m3u from. So, instead of the m3u playlist file, mplayer gets the URL instead, which it cannot use for playback.

It would be nice to make this work, but configuration-wise it seems not to be possible to change this.

To make it more clear, the kPlayList system gives you a link that looks like this, when you click a music file:

http://www.url.com/kplaylist/kplaylist.php?sid=51193&c=2-10394&stag=91b1b34e6d6d5d4b (not a usable URL of course, I just made this one up)

When you click that, and download, you get something like "m099267.m3u". This can be opened in mplayer after the Download in Opera. However, when the link is clicked, and mplayer (or any other media player) is chosen to open it instead, the URL gets handed over instead of the m3u file.

I would like the option to configure Opera Mobiles behaviour when it comes to handling files/links as freely as possible to fix this.

Nut sure how common such problems are though...

Thanks!