Closed Bug 303745 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

dbsuite.de - Gzipped file served as text/plain

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: ssc.various, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5 I was trying to download software from Apple's Web Site using Firefox (so I could leave cookies on) what I got was a page full of garbage. The download worked fine with Safari. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. surf to: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/sql4xmanagerj.html 2. Click on the download button at the bottom of the right collumn 3. Prepare for garbage Actual Results: Thousands of garbage characters scrolled down a new window. Expected Results: The downloads manager should have opened.
The website serves the page as text/plain so firefox displays it as such
Assignee: nobody → english-us
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Download Manager → English US
Ever confirmed: true
OS: MacOS X → All
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: download.manager → english-us
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Summary: File Download on this page does not work → dbsuite.de - Gzipped file served as text/plain
Workaround: Same URL with ftp:// instead of http:// works. Please contact this German beased company, which is responsible for this server. http://www.dbsuite.de/?action=info&actionid=aboutus
Assignee: english-us → english-other
Component: English US → English Other
QA Contact: english-us → english-other
the apple url is 404, dbsuite.de is dead
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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