216017 - octeams.com - binary files served as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Mikko Virkkilä]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703

Browser crashed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://overclockix.octeams.com/
2. Click on link (http://overclockix.octeams.com/Overclockix_ColdFusion.iso)


Actual Results:  
At first it looked like it was opening this binary file in the browser window,
but then it crashed, taking mozilla mail with it.

Expected Results:  
A Save file dialog should pop up and ask me where I want to save the file.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

It is trying to open it in the window, because the server incorrectly says that
the MIME type is text/plain.  You should write to the site and ask them to fix
their server setting.
->TE

Comment 2

[Mikko Virkkilä]

But I don't think this should cause the browser to crash. 

I've seen this several times, the browser opening something binary since the
mimetype is wrong, but this is the first time I've seen the browser crash.
Shouldn't we be able to handle all kind of input without a crash?

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Can you get a stack or Talkback ID for this? I don't have time at the moment to
crash ;-), but this should be a browser bug for the crash and an evang bug for
the mime type on the site.

Comment 4

[Mikko Virkkilä]

I can't reproduce the crash anymore since the iso has changed (they still serve
the files as text/plain though).

I will change the summary to represent the current state of the bug, since it's
now a pure evangelism bug.

Comment 5

[Mikko Virkkilä]

Also the torrents are served as text/plain.

Comment 6

[Mikko Virkkilä]

No longer serving isos. Closing.