204358 - Creative serving driver downloads as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Roger Matthews]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

Attempted to download a driver for a Soundblaster Audio PCI 128 for Windows 98
from the support url above.  When I selected the "DOWNLOAD" button, the screen
filled with garbage.  When I tried the same thing from IE, the download manager
came up with "Save to file" messages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Same as above
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Actual Results:  
Same as above

Expected Results:  
Should have provided ability to download file.

Comment 1

[Chris Applegate]

There were 8 files listed under "Driver." It appears most of them aren't
drivers, but MIDI patch sets. The patch sets have extension .ecw and are sent as
text/plain. The actual drivers have extension .exe and properly trigger a "Save
As" dialogue. Server misconfigured?

Comment 2

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

I came across this a few days ago. The server is indeed misconfigured (I had to
use forcecontenttype when downloading Vibra 128 drivers as they were being
served as text/plain). As far as I know, the actual driver files are on
europe.creative.com, but linked from both asia.creative.com and
america.creative.com.

-> Tech Evang

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

WFM