275585 - [Apache 2]MPL, tri-license HTML boilerplates invisible except via source view

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

The boilerplate text for the HTML versions of the MPL and MPL/GPL/LGPL is
currently plaintext, but it needs to be written as an HTML document.  The only
way to view the text now is to view the source.

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Oops, wrong URL (from before I checked and found that both MPL and tri-license
boilerplates were bad for HTML), sorry for bugspam...

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Does anybody understand Apache 2 well enough to understand why it would send a
file whose name ends in "-html" as text/html?

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

nobody turned on content negotiation in that directory, did they?

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

you're right though, it feeds it as text/plain on www-stage (which is apache 1.3)...

Comment 5

[Anne (:annevk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Does anybody understand Apache 2 well enough to understand why it would send a
> file whose name ends in "-html" as text/html?

I believe that happens when you use:

  AddType text/html html

Instead of:

  AddType text/html .html

We could either fix that or give the files a .txt extension and use
mod_negotiation to hide it again.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Does anybody understand Apache 2 well enough to understand why it would send a
> > file whose name ends in "-html" as text/html?
> 
> I believe that happens when you use:
> 
>   AddType text/html html

I just verified that this is NOT present anywhere in the httpd.conf or included
files on reptile.  In fact, there's very few AddType lines at all, I suspect it
may be "built in" on apache2.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

You can add this to the .htaccess in that directory though:

<FilesMatch ^mpl-tri-license-html$>
  ForceType text/plain
</FilesMatch>

Comment 8

[Anne (:annevk)]

Done. Slightly different though as discussed with justdave on IRC:
<http://cvs-www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla-org/html/MPL/boilerplate-1.1/.htaccess>

Comment 9

[Anne (:annevk)]

And marking fixed...