358040 - fvx.com - Some JPG URLs display code rather than the image (wrong MIME type)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[jezza2412]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

When I go directly to certain URLs where the target is a JPG eg http://fvx.com/map/1158185197.jpg all I get is a screen full of gobbledegook rather than the image.  In Firefox 1.507 it worked fine, and it still works fine in IE6



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://fvx.com/map/1158185197.jpg in the Address field and click Go

Actual Results:  
A screen full of gobbledegook- the binary characters in the image I presume

Expected Results:  
To see the image

Comment 1

[Rich Parker]

Right-click the page and choose "Page Info".  The web server is specifying type text/html instead of image/jpeg.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This is because the server is sending the image with the wrong content type (not as image/jpeg but as text/html). So Firefox displays it as text.
Firefox 1.5.x did the same. IE corrects the wrong content-type but this is not a task of a browser. Informing the webmaster should solve the problem.

Comment 3

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

A valid evangelism bug.

Comment 4

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

404
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0