1235609 - wiki.mozilla.org serves json for a wiki page name ending in .json

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1235725

(DevTools :: JSON Viewer, defect)

Description

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Visit:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/allthethings.json

Then visit:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/allthethings.%6a%73%6f%6e

Notice the latter is a real page, (and should be a real page) while the former is served as json by the web server and firefox tries to parse as json.

Yes the page could be renamed but I don't think we want real wiki pages able to be served as json anyway...

Comment 1

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

??? both look normal to me. Content-Type: text/html, looks like a normal wiki page. Checked in Chrome and Firefox Beta.

Some addon breaking it for you, maybe? Can anyone else replicate?

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

I'm on dev edition, so maybe thats the cause?  https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Valence is listed as an addon in my addons list, and I've not actively chosen to download... let me look again...

And it seems that it does indeed serve as ```Content-Type:"text/html; charset=UTF-8"``` so probably an addon/dev-edition issue.

Comment 3

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

And to be clear, even with Valence disabled, it still has this behavior

Comment 4

[u463073]

I'm also having this issue with Developer Edition (FF45).
I came across this while checking https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json , which should render as a HTML document, and also contains this header in the response. 
> Content-Type:"text/html; charset=UTF-8"

Thanks for the workaround in the description!

Comment 5

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

duplicate of this bug 1235725 perhaps?

Comment 6

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

(In reply to Robert Longson from comment #5)
> duplicate of this bug 1235725 perhaps?

They are indeed one and the same issue afaict. Not sure which way to dupe though.

Comment 7

[:Atoll]

I'm arbitrarily duping this forward to bug 1235725, since that bug has a "regression" bug comment and this bug is much noisier for its time spent going around the triage queues.