311459 - sourceforge.net - optusnet mirror sends .jar file as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Richard Rowe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

the download of the file starts directly, outputting text to the screen (and
this is a 24M file).  The default option set (save to disk) is not activated.
Happens every time.

I can't find anywhere an option to run these files. It still happened after I
removed the 'run java' option in the advanced tools.

IE (whatever version I still have ... ) stops the file from downloading then
after manual intervention offers options including 'save to disk'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on link in sourceforge
2.wait while sourceforge sets up
3.sit back and watch ...

Actual Results:  
exhibits opening lines of java program as text

Expected Results:  
I really wanted to download the package to disk to install it ...

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I tried a bunch of mirrors.  Most of them triggered the open/save dialog, but
the choosing the Optusnet mirror resulted in the bad behavior described by the
reporter.  This happens because the Optusnet mirror sends the file as text/plain.

I wonder why Sourceforge doesn't require its mirrors to use the correct mime
types, and why it doesn't check that its mirrors use the correct mime type.

-> Tech Evang

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

looks fixed