541925 - after update to 3.6: browser suggests to save file home.htm or open it with another application

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[arjan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I updated my Firefox from 3.5x to 3.6 and since that moment the following page doesn't open correctly anymore. I don't know if it is a problem with the website, but is has never been a problem so far. 

When I enter the URL http://www.skl.de/fwd?to=1_home.jsp the page isn't being displayed as a web page. Instead Firefox offers to save the file or open it with another application. When i choose Firefox as application the file opened is named file:///C:/DOCUME~1/Arjan/LOCALS~1/Temp/home-1.htm. My JRE had been updated only a few days before I updated Firefox. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.skl.de/  [or directly from point 2]
2.http://www.skl.de/fwd?to=1_home.jsp
3.
Actual Results:  
Page doesn't open like expected.

Expected Results:  
The website should have opened like any other website does.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

For me that redirects to http://www.skl.de/mobil/home.htm;jsessionid=randomstuff which is served with the following HTTP header:

Content-Type: application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8

which doesn't seem to be listed at http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/ as a real type, and being unknown leads Firefox to prompt for further action.

It looks like they have a simple error on the server end with the content-type header.

Comment 2

[arjan]

Why wasn't this a problem in all versions previous to version 3.6?
And why is it suddenly a problem?

(I am not super technical and certainly not a Firefox expert. I just experienced this problem directly after updating Firefox.)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking invalid based on comment #1 (and it works again for me)