279527 - bbb.org - ASP documents sent as "application/octet-stream"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Patrick Dark]

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

When trying to open the webpage at "http://www.bbb.org/library/tipbbb.asp,"
Firefox's Download Manager asks the user if they want to download it rather than
presenting it for view in the browser window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to "http://www.bbb.org/library/tipbbb.asp."
Actual Results:  
The Download Manager presents the user with the option to Save to Disk and
doesn't load the page.

Expected Results:  
Expected load of page in the browser window; ASP is a webpage format.

Loaded the page from
"http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/economics/econpp2003/tx/chapter3/webact.shtml"
 and encountered the bug. Attempted to load the page directly, same result. Page
loads correctly in IE6.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

The server sends this page with Content-Type "application/octet-stream".

see
http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbb.org%2Flibrary%2Ftipbbb.asp&submit=Submit&gzip=yes&type=GET&ua=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Windows%3B+U%3B+WinNT4.0%3B+en-US%3B+rv%3A1.8b%29+Gecko%2F20050118+Netscape%2F7.2+Web-Sniffer%2F1.0.19

So this is rather Tech Evang. Please inform the webmaster.

Comment 2

[Patrick Dark]

Heh, I come back to this bug I submitted over a year ago and the page seems to be served with the correct MIME type of "text/html" now and displays in Firefox 1.5.0.6. Having learned more about this kind of thing since, it seems that this is a bug in Internet Explorer, not Firefox, so I think it makes sense to change the status to "invalid".

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

actually, if this were a "product" bug report then it would be invalid, but as a tech evangelism bug report it is not. In tech evangelism, fixed means the site fixed their content.