263404 - factcheck.org -- pages being served as application/octet-stream

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Jordan Dea-Mattson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

When attempting to view the website FactCheck.org when using FireFox PR1,
clicking any link on the main page results in the file handler dialog being
displayed. You are then requested to either download the file or identify an
application with which to open it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to FactCheck.org
2. Click on any link
3. You will see the file handler dialog

Actual Results:  
The file handler dialog is displayed.

Expected Results:  
Display the appropriate page, as is done by IE, Safari on Mac OS X, and IE on
Mac OS X.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@docID=272

HEAD /article.aspx@docID=272 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.factcheck.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5)
Gecko/20041006 Firefox/0.9.1+
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:14:36 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:08:39 GMT
Etag: "d4af73c4dacc41:b0c"
Content-Length: 34898

By sending it as application/octet-stream, they're telling FF to offer a
download prompt for it.  This is a server problem, not a browser-problem.

->TE

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 263414 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

Taking.  I sent a note tonight to the technical problems/webmaster contact
address to alert them to their problem.

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

No reply from them, but links work for me now this morning.  It looks like
whatever system they use to generate their links was omitting a .html extension
on the end, as the links suddenly all have that this morning.

Resolving fixed.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 263664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***