323883 - iihf.com - mimetype text/plain for jsp pages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[J.O. Aho]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051205 SeaMonkey/1.1a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051205 SeaMonkey/1.1a

When visiting iihf.com's jsp pages they are sent with the mimetype text/plain which makes mozilla (even Opera, Konqueror under linux x86/PPC, AWeb under MorphOS) to display the HTML code instead of rendering the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the page http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/ws/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=46

Actual Results:  
Shows the html code

Expected Results:  
the page would have been rendered as html page

iihf.com should fix the mimetype sent by the webserver to use text/html for jsp pages and the problem would have been solved.

Did write a polite mail to iihf.com about this and their solution is to use Microsoft Internet Explorer through the "IE Tab" extention for FireFox/Mozilla (does only work under Microsoft Windows). Futher explanations hasn't result in any reply.

As this wrong mimetype makes vital information about hockey tournaments to not be rendered in most web browsers, I think a major feature is broken on the site.
http://www.iihf.com/hockey/tournam/tournaments.htm#

--- reply from iihf.com about wrong mimetype ---
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:11:34 +0100
From: "IIHF, Szymon Szemberg" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: IIHF stats pages
Parts/Attachments:
   1   OK    ~21 lines  Text
   2 Shown   ~35 lines  Text
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dear ice hockey fan
if you are using mozilla/firefox there is some small extensions you have to
install, to find it on following links:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1419&application=mozilla

I hope this helps you and there are no problems anymore the get all officials statistics from the iihf.com webpage
Regards,
 
International Ice Hockey Federation
Szymon Szemberg
Information and Media Relations Manager
Brandschenkestrasse 50, Postfach, CH-8039 Zürich
 
Tel:[phone] Fax:[phone]
e-mail : [e-mail] Internet : http://www.iihf.com

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Those two extensions just make Firefox use IE which is in my opinion a horrible thing to do and wouldn't work on your linux box anyway. Who are you going to trust? A lame site that only works in IE? Not me! 

Comment 2

[J.O. Aho]

Did check the site up today and it seems that the mime types has been fixed for the jsp pages, here is the header that wget nowadays gets

wget -S http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/wsia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=47
--20:22:52--  http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/wsia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=47
           => `index.jsp@compId=47'
Resolving www.iihf.com... 195.162.151.17
Connecting to www.iihf.com|195.162.151.17|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:22:53 GMT
  Server: IBM_HTTP_Server/6.0.2 Apache/2.0.47
  Last-Modified: Mon, 01 May 2006 04:23:05 GMT
  ETag: "1f47c-14137-693d9c21"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Length: 82231
  Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/html
Length: 82,231 (80K) [text/html]

As I know things may changes with next changes on the system, I haven't marked this as a resolved bug, but leave it open untill someone else can confirm this.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

looks fixed to me in bonecho2.0a2/winxp.