265623 - waaf.com - serves HTML as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Max Henke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When opening the site it displayes the source text of the page instead of the
content and streaming video. Only Internet Explorer will display that page
correctly.
Safari will display the content, but will not stream the video.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.You need only load the page/site
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
A page of source text. Using Netscape produces the same result.

Expected Results:  
View a plack background containing text and a small window with active video.

The basic or first site this page is located is: http://www.howiecarr.org/

Then click on 'Howie Cam'.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:42:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4
Last-Modified: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:02:54 GMT
Etag: "547b7-1b48-3fb40d9e"
Content-Length: 6984
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/plain

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Mozilla does what it is told to do. When the server says the content is
text/plain, it displays text/plain. Fix the server say type is text/html, and
then you will see the page as the author most likely intended. See
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/mimetypes.html

-> invalid

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

The whole point of TE bugs is to document the need for a site to fix its issues
such as this.  How can you consider this an invalid bug until the site is fixed?

Reopening.

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

This is why https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_activity.cgi?id=262099

Come discuss on irc://moznet/evangelism instead of spamming here.

Comment 5

[Bill Mason]

That bug is about binary files and how we handle them when the mime type is
wrong.  This is not.  And it doesn't change the fact that this site has a TE
issue that needs to be resolved on their end.  Sorry, but I don't have time to
waste on IRC debating the obvious.

There are dozens of invalid TE bugs open by your logic, if text/plain HTML is an
invalid TE issue.

Comment 6

[Steve Chapel]

The correct URL now seems to be http://www.waaf.com/email/wrkoquackindex.jhtml
and the page is sent as text/html. Please reopen if you see any other pages on
this server improperly sent as text/plain.