277778 - espn.go.com - some pages served as application/octet-stream

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Angelo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I have been a user of Mozilla 1.0 for months now.  For the past week, many links
on ESPN.COM will prompt me to "open" or "save to disk", and then if I proceed,
choose the program to open it.  It'll open if I choose Firefox, but it leaves
items in my download manager and is a huge nuisance.  I have noticed that all of
the files seem to be an "application/octet-stream".  I'm not sure if it's
coincidence, but it started as soon as I installed Microsoft's new anti-spam
beta program. However, even if I turn it off, I still have issues.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Opening nearly any link on ESPN.COM
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Prompted to "open" or "save to disk", and then to "select application to open
with".  

Expected Results:  
Opened the link automatically.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Rather odd - looking at http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=nym the
first and third news stories,
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1963185 and
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=1962609 are served as
text/html, the second, http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1962630 is
served as application/octet-stream. Whatever they've messed up, it must be
particular to the page, rather than the URL/application serving it.

Comment 2

[Fred Trinkoff]

I have noticed this as well and it is very annoying. If there's anything you can
do to fix this, or to get ESPN to fix it, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed