165510 - sandiego.edu is sending .msi files as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, enhancement)

Description

[johnbutler78]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721

can this file type only be opened with IE (it does) this site is password
protected also (maybe you can't do anything)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
page of jarbled text in IE a setup option

Comment 1

[timeless]

it requires a login (or perhaps for my host to be inside sandiego.edu).

when you load the page in mozilla, select view>pageinfo
for the webpage i'm currently looking at, i get:
Type: text/html

if you see text/<something> then it's not our fault. (we can move the bug to
tech evangelism if you like)

Comment 2

[johnbutler78]

it opens the installer in IE though is mozilla able to deal with files type .msi

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

My computer (win98) has .msi support. But when I lookup the
.msi (Msi.Package) entry in my regedit, I don't see any content type
defined. Maybe that is part of the problem too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52052 ***

Comment 4

[timeless]

no, that doesn't relate.
we're looking for what mime type does the server indicate.
it probably is sending text/plain. if it does, it's the server's fault.

Comment 5

[johnbutler78]

Sorry, it says type: text/plain  and the size is over 18000 kb. It downloaded as
 mcafee viruscan when I used IE. 

Comment 6

[johnbutler78]

so the server is incompatible with Mozilla?

Comment 7

[timeless]

no, the server is just misconfigured. you'd get the same result in any web
browser which complies with the http protocol.

i'm sending this to tech evangelism with the hope that you can contact the
webserver's admin and explain that they should configure .msi to be sent as
application/octet-stream.

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

can't test since requires a login. please tell them to configure the mime types
on their server properly.

Comment 9

[Bill Mason]

This URL is now a 404.
Reopen if an accessible URL on this domain still has this issue.

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg