239398 - Firefox treats html page with .cgi extension as file download

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Anthony Herana]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

In the page at http://www.geappliances.com/geac/own_instl/, submitting a search
query returns an html page with the .cgi extension in the filename. Instead of
processing the .cgi page in the browser window, Firefox opens a window prompting
the user to save the page or open it with another program.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.geappliances.com/geac/own_instl/
2. Enter any text in the Model # search field
3. Click the Search button

Actual Results:  
Firefox informs the user that it has received an html/text file called
tswww.cgi, and prompts the user to either save it to disk or open it with
another program.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have processed the file and displayed it in the browser window.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Firefox reports that the CGI gives "html/text" as the mime type.  The correct
mime type is "text/html".  I think this bug is invalid.

-> File Handling

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Evang.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed