Closed Bug 273330 Opened 20 years ago Closed 11 years ago

theworldgame.com.au - is being served as application/octet-stream (open/download dialog is displayed)

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: k0c1l, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Entering this URL "http://www.theworldgame.com.au" does not open the website,
instead Firefox want to save it to the disk.

The problem happens today (06-12-2004) on:
Firefox 1.0 for Linux
Firefox 0.8 for Linux
Firefox 0.8 for Linux
Konqueror 3.3.1 for Linux

But does not happen on:
Microsoft I.E. 5.x.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the Firefox
2. Enter the URL on the URL edit box


Actual Results:  
An "Opening dialog" appeared.
Asking me to save the file as binary file.


Expected Results:  
The website should be displayed on the browser.
On I.E, a pop up comes out too.
Summary: Access the site want to save it to disk → Access the site does not open it, but save it to the disk
Sorry, I made A mistake

The problem happens today (06-12-2004) on:
Firefox 1.0 for Linux
Firefox 0.8 for Linux
Firefox 0.8 for Windows <<---
Konqueror 3.3.1 for Linux

You can see at the following url that that website is sending it's content as
application/octet-stream, which causes Mozilla/Firefox to prompt you for a
location to save it. Mozilla/Firefox does the "Right Thing" by asking the user.
IE does the wrong thing. It's an issue that the website owner must resolve.
Assignee: bugs → english-other
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: File Handling → English Other
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: bmo → english-other
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Access the site does not open it, but save it to the disk → theworldgame.com.au - is being served as application/octet-stream
Ok.
And they have resolved the problem now.

Thanks


(In reply to comment #2)
> You can see at the following url ...

Oops, I meant to point you to:
http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theworldgame.com.au

As far as I can tell, it has not been fixed.

still not fixed, see dupe

HTTP headers
http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theworldgame.com.au%2F&submit=Submit&gzip=yes&type=GET

http://www.theworldgame.com.au/ delivers 
http://www.theworldgame.com.au/index.gvk which contains only

<html>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://twg.sbs.com.au/home">
</html>

The new page itself sends correct HTTP headers.
URL: http://www.theworldgame.com.au → http://www.theworldgame.com.au/
Summary: theworldgame.com.au - is being served as application/octet-stream → theworldgame.com.au - is being served as application/octet-stream (open/download dialog is displayed)
*** Bug 275009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This seems to work fine now
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.19; Build ID: 20130628213754
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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