Closed Bug 353174 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

The html generated by CGI displays as text -- started with 1.5.0.7

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: price, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

When displaying the results of a road information search from the CA Transportation site, it appears as text. This began with 1.5.0.7 (it worked as expected in 1.5.0.6).

File type (in page info) shows text/plain

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/index.htm
2. Type in a highway number (number only) E.G. 5
3. hit enter or search button


Actual Results:  
The result displays as text starting with:
<Content-Type: text/html>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<HTML LANG="ENG">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome to California</TITLE>
.....
It seems to be a problem in how the content type line is handled

Expected Results:  
A formatted page (i.e. the result that hapens when you save the result as a file and then load it -- or better than that since the images, etc. don't work when you save it locally).
well the content type is served wrong.
when looking at the generated headers it says what it shows -> 

Response Headers - http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:47:24 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Unix) PHP/5.1.4
Content-Type: text/plain
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

200 OK

check your cgi. it's just serving the wrong content-type. (konqueror for example gets text/plain too). no error in FF for me.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
fyi: that cgi appears to work with GET requests as well as the form from http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/index.htm which uses a POST.
For troubleshooting with a CLI user-agent it might be easier to do http://http//www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi?roadnumber=5

Definitely a website bug with Firefox as intended and up to spec.  Every page I tried with for that script returned a 'Content-Type: text/plain' header.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
I left out a word.  Last comment should read:
Definitely a website bug with Firefox behaving as intended and up to spec.
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