147459 - Offers to download "PHP" objects

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[David Bottrill]

Entering the above URL spawns several download dialog boxes offering to download
such objects as "frameset.php" and "blank_top_blue.php"

I have tested the above URL in Konqueror and all works correctly.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme, Win32 build 2002-05-25-08.

Comment 2

[Claus Herwig]

WFM with RC3 (2002052306) on WinMe

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, 1.0rc3 Linux, running Crossover with Flash6.
There's a flash menu on the page, and some some soundtrack playing
It's impossible to view source of any of the frames via menu  however
(application/x-unknown-content-type)

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

cin case it's related: the URL also spawn two extra windows:
1 normal size + 1 small add.

Comment 5

[hugo van woerkom]

when you install PHP and let's say Apache then with Netscape 4.79, Konqueror,
Opera and Galeon when you enter http://<localhost>/<php file> in the navigation
bar the server (=Apache) will execute that file and display the results on the
client.
Not so Mozilla: it wants to know how to download the file.
HOW do you run PHP files on Mozilla?
It got mentioned once here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&selm=3C937FD7.8080809%40spam.de
but what to do was never answered.
I think it is a serious problem, but who knows... I see no further mentioning so
it must be common knowledge how to do it or noone does it...

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

PHP files doesn't run in Mozilla.
You request a URL from the server. The server executes the php and sends normal
HTML to the browser (this is the result of the php, Mozilla doesn't know
anything about php).

You can get a download dialog if :
The server sends the wrong mime-type for the html.
The server has problems with Http pipelining
A problem/bug in our new pipelining code.

In your posting : You can't tell mozilla to show this mime-type because mozilla
can't handle application/x-httpd-php.
You must change the server settings to send text/html

That's a misconfigured server and not a problem with Mozilla.
Mozilla follows only the standards and offers you a download dialog.
(IE and Opera breaks the standards in this case)

If that is not your server :
Send a mail to the webmaster and/or use .htaccess

This URL is wfm -> wfm

Comment 7

[hugo van woerkom]

Right. Netscape 4.79, Opera, Galeon, Konqueror are all dead wrong for having
this working without tweaking servers and scripts, and no package installer
program ever knows what it is doing anyway, which must be why it works off the
bat in the other browsers. Just read the post quoted in my previous comment.

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Netscape 4.79, Opera, Galeon, Konqueror: wrong 
Netscape4.78 use the same way and follows the standard.

>Not so Mozilla: it wants to know how to download the file.
no, Mozilla wants to download what the server sends (the content and not the
file). I might be Html but you don't tell mozilla that you send html.
Just change the .php mime setting tzo text/html and it works.


Mozilla does what the server sends.
a webmaster should be able to configure a server correct and send not a wrong
HTML mime-type.
Opera would also do it if there are not many stupid webmasters arround.
(just look the recent discussion in one of their newsgroup)

I you don't want to configure the mime-types do this:
Send no mime-type and mozilla does the same (looks for the extension and/or content)