296820 - .dmg file loads as page of garbage text because mime-type is text/plain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[neuropulse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The .dmg fle for "The Sims 2 Body Shop" at macgamefiles.com loads as a page of
garbage text instead of saving the file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.macgamefiles.com/download.php?item=18683
Actual Results:  
A page of garbage text loaded.

Expected Results:  
A .dmg file should have been saved.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Stinks like a bad set up server which is sending a bad mimetype to firefox...

Tech evangelism bug ?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can use right-click on the link and select save as (is there a right-click
or context menu on mac ?)

The reason for this is a misconfigured server :

http://downloads2.macgamefiles.com/files/aspyr/sims2bodyshop.dmg

HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date:	Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:13:00 GMT	CRLF
Server:	Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)	CRLF
Last-Modified:	Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:56:26 GMT	CRLF
ETag:	"59405a-cd0b64a-de699e80"	CRLF
Accept-Ranges:	bytes	CRLF
Content-Length:	215004746	CRLF
Connection:	close	CRLF
Content-Type:	text/plain; charset=UTF-8	CRLF

                ^^^^^^^^^^
Firefox correctly renders this as text file as the server requested.

Comment 3

[Frederic Bezies]

Matti : you can use a 2 button mouse, or use Ctrl+clic ;p

adding email contact adress : [e-mail]

Let's hope they will fix this soon ;p

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed !