Closed Bug 180443 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

house.gov - serves html as application/octet-stream

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: lawrencc, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [MIME-HTML])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021114 Phoenix/0.4 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021114 Phoenix/0.4 The HTTP headers do contain the incorrect Content-Type header; however, the actual content sent to the browser does contain: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> The page is actually in windows-1252 encoding, not the iso-8859-1 declared in the META tag, though! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: There's no obvious contact information on the website to have this fixed.
Verified 2002111108 PC/Win98. Contact info is here: http://tomdelay.house.gov/contact.htm But the info notes that due to email volume, email from outside the congressman's district will be ignored. Non-email contact info is also there.
Severity: normal → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P1
Summary: Site sends wrong content-type to browser (application/octet-stream instead of text/html) → tomdelay.house.gov - serves html as application/octet-stream
Whiteboard: [MIME-HTML]
tech evang june 2003 reorg
Assignee: bc → english-us
Component: US Gov → English US
QA Contact: chrisn → english-us
Summary: tomdelay.house.gov - serves html as application/octet-stream → house.gov - serves html as application/octet-stream
wfm. if you disagree please reopen and give specific steps to find the offending content.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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