186514 - .com binary's are displays as text in browser

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Richard Stubbs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

The browser seams to interpret http://exmaple.yourdomain.com/an_executable.com
(an executable file ".com") and displays it as text in the browser as apposed to
invoking the download manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.attempt to retrieve a .com binary via the url address bar
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
displays the content as text in the browser

Expected Results:  
invoke the download manager

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

yes, the server sends text/plain (load the page, open Page info and look at the
content type). Mozilla can render text/plain and you get this file in teh
browser window.

yes, it works in IE but Ie is broken and violates the rfc.

-> invalid

Please send a note to the webmaster that the server should send a correct
mime-type for this file (something like "application/octet-stream")