114828 - mydown.com - servlet pages sent as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Chinese-Simplified, defect)

Description

[Henry Jia]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6+)
Gecko/20011211
BuildID:    2001121103

When I open this page, it is shown in plain text instead of the normal html
format. IE displays it correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.just open the page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  This page is shown in plain text.

Expected Results:  shown in normal html format

also tested build 2001112009 on windows 2000(intel)
also tested build netscape 6.1 on solaris 8(sparc)

Comment 1

[tenthumbs]

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:02:10 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) tomcat/1.0 mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
Content-Type: text/plain

The server says it's plain text and mozilla believes it.

Comment 2

[timeless]

not a browser bug. => evangelism, reporter if you'd like more info about 
evangelism, please visit irc.mozilla.org #evangelism

Comment 3

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

asia

Comment 4

[Rui Xu]

Reporter: I tried the URL you provided, it doesn't seem to be working 
(got 'Internal Server Error'). Do you have any other link that can repro this 
bug? Also, could you please attach a screen capture for this defect? Thank you.

Comment 5

[Henry Jia]

Attachment: screen capture for this bug

I accessed this address again and had the same result. Now I captured the
screen.

Comment 6

[mephinet]

is it possible that mozilla is confused by the charset?
as in:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Comment 7

[Calvin Liu]

I think there is nothing to do with charset in this case.

Comment 8

[david avery]

as comment 1 said - the page is being served as "text/plain" and mozilla is
displaying it as requested. the site needs to fix their server setup. nothing
mozilla can or should do

Comment 9

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

As the following section of HTTP 1.1 protocol says:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2616.html#sec-7.2.1

This is clearly a server error. We are not supposed to make a guess as
to the content's media type if one is supplied by the server. If we cannot
trust a standard and web operators behave as they wish, then we will be
creating chaos. We have asked many server opertaors to fix their MIME
type problem and we have been successful in a huge majority of cases.
Let's appeal to the common sense of the server operator in this
case also and wait to see if they will fix the problem.

I sent the following addresses a message explaining all of this and
requesting that they fix the MIME type associated with this file:

1. [e-mail]
2. [e-mail]

Address 1 did not work and the message bounced but Address 2 seems to be
OK. If you have any other addresses I should use, please let me know.

Comment 10

[Frankie]

All of the /servlet/ links on the mydown home page exhibit the same behavior.

The home page has a bunch of javascript errors, but that's a separate problem.

Comment 11

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Changing component.

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed