300558 - MSI MIME Type Wrong

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: FTP: Mirrors, task)

Description

[Matthew Velie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

When trying to download the latest firefox msi build from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ firefox
tries to open the msi file in the browser, displaying it as text.  In order to
download you must right click, save as.  Even then firefox (ie) belives it to be
a text file that it is downloading, not an application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
2. Click on MSI File
3.

Actual Results:  
msi file opens in browser as text file

Expected Results:  
download file

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

hmmm, confirmed.

Retrieving firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.0%2B.en-US.win32.installer.msi
Target MIME Type: application/octet-stream
130.239.18.137                 text/plain
130.239.18.142                 text/plain
130.239.18.165                 text/plain
130.239.18.173                 text/plain
131.188.3.71                   application/octet-stream
149.174.36.116                 text/plain
152.163.212.246                text/plain
155.98.64.83                   text/plain
156.56.247.196                 text/plain
204.152.184.113                text/plain
205.188.221.241                text/plain
207.200.66.54                  text/plain
216.165.129.134                text/plain
64.12.204.21                   text/plain
130.207.108.135                text/plain

Comment 2

[Jordi]

If you try to download any msi file Firefox (2.0) tries to open it as text. Sample:
http://www.softguru.net/mssqlmysqlconverter/MSSQLMySQLConverterDemo.msi

Comment 3

[Guillermo Miranda Álamo]

I went from Firefox 2.0 to Grand Paradiso Alfa 2, and now I have the same MSI MIME-type bug, try to download ORCA:
http://www.jtow.net/~triess/index.htm
http://www.jtow.net/~triess/files/Orca.Msi

Thanks,
Guillermo Miranda Álamo.

Comment 4

[timeless]

NNo, you don't. Your problems are site specific, just like our site is broken. 
You should complain to the sites' webmasters, just like Matthew did. 

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OSL guys aren't directly handling this stuff anymore (not that they can't, but it's not their job anymore)

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I've added

AddType application/octet-stream msi

to the .htaccess file in the top-level directory.  That should correct it on most of them.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This change was made to the mirrored data a few weeks ago, and I made an announcement to the mirrors list advising people to look for it and make it manually if their server doesn't honor our .htaccess file.

The primary mirrors appear to all be correct now.  I'd like individual bugs if anyone notices any other mirrors that show up with the wrong type.