319794 - homepage.mac.com - sends "text/plain" for binary files

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[ronald.gold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051108 Camino/1.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051108 Camino/1.0b1

Using both trunk and branch versions of G4 7450 optimized builds for 12/9/05, when I click on download link for WakeonLan v 0.6 either at MacUpdate, VersionTracker, or WakeOnLan homepage,  the text of the zipped file appears in the browser window and nothing is downloaded. If I use Safari or iCab v3.0, the file is downloaded without any problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on Download button for http://homepage.mac.com/dtl/WakeOnLan/WakeOnLan.zip
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Text of zipped file appears in window instead of being downloaded.

Expected Results:  
File should have been downloaded.

Comment 1

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Server sending incorrect MIME type? (in which case this would be WONTFIX, and the solution would be to contact the webmaster)

Also Ronald, note that you can work around this by option-clicking on the link and choosing the location to save it to (in which case it works fine).

Comment 2

[ronald.gold]

Thanks for work-around. It worked.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Well, it's Apple, so let's kick it to Tech Evangelism.

It's returning "text/plain;charset=us-ascii" :-(

Comment 4

[ronald.gold]

This is response from the developer of WakeOnLan:

"Yes, some browsers don't define "zip" as a default file type to download. I'll include the option-click hint on the web site."

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

heh, <http://bclary.com/2004/09/26/boot-camp-content-type>

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

curl -I http://homepage.mac.com/dtl/WakeOnLan/WakeOnLan.zip

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:14:41 GMT
Content-Length: 857596
Content-Type: application/zip
Cache-Control: max-age=60, must-revalidate
Server: AppleDotMacServer-1B5608
x-responding-server: hpng026
X-dmUser: dtl
ETag: u-1g3s18hn-47mp-34uyi90k1-22aggfzcvo0
Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:47:29 GMT
Via: 1.1 hpcache008 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5P2D2)

Looks like they fixed at least this one. Can anyone confirm with another dot-mac download? If so, please verify this bug.

Comment 7

[ronald.gold]

The problem at http://homepage.mac.com/dtl/WakeOnLan is fixed and download behaves normally.