207289 - washingtonpost.com - serving images up as application/octet-stream

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[tor]

The indicated URL includes a thumbnail image which is served up as text/plain:

  http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I42389-2003May26

The fullsize image if you click on the thumbnail also comes back as text/plain:

  http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I42389-2003May26L

The images work in the page due to our handling of the img tag and a mimetype
content sniffer, but they should be encouraged to hand back proper mimetypes.

Comment 1

[Susie Wyshak]

-->bclary

Reporter please also write to WP and you can point them to this article.
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/mime-types/

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> evang500

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

well, the images are now application/octet-stream...

Comment 5

[Maxious]

Images try to download on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US;
rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040415 Firefox/0.8.0+ and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040419

Comment 6

[Christopher Whitt]

Add top100 keyword, updated summary to reflect change Bob Clary mentioned in
comment 4, changed hardware and OS to All...

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Evangelism triage - no activity since 4-20. Looks like this is still an issue
with Firefox 1.0. Needs follow up.

Comment 8

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

The links from comment 0 still show plain text however, WP seems to be better with serving these things now. Close?

Comment 9

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

I think we should close. Site says "For articles before 2005, use our paid archive search" meaning normal users shouldn't be able to access this content without paying. And it's unlikely they will want to fix at this point.