416516 - impossible to connect to http://www.cactuspro.com/ since auto update to 2.0.0.12 this morning

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[schweich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Up to yesterday connexion to the URL given above was not a problem. Since this morning after the auto update to 2.0.0.12, connexion leads to the opening of the donwload window. Then a file named "fpdo8hii(2)" is downloaded and no connexion takes place...
There is no such problem when using Safari: connexion works well as before!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.connect to http://www.cactuspro.com/
2.At least from a Mac PBG4 under OSX 10.4.11 (see build id)
3.
Actual Results:  
The download window opens instead of connecting to the site

Expected Results:  
connexion to the site "cactuspro"

Using Safari leads to the expected connexion!

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Your summary is wrong, you get a connection but you get only a download instead of the html page.
Can you please try to clear the disk cache ?

Comment 2

[schweich]

Attachment: Firefox screenshot when bug occurs

Comment 3

[schweich]

Attachment: Lack of bug when using safari and thus normal connexion

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

via email:
Hi Matthias,

>Sorry...
>I finally found where to empty the disk cache! And...
>
>           Everything works well again...
>
>I am a litlle bit ashamed... and I waste about 4 hours (since about 6h30 this >morning!) trying to solve the issue!
>How to erase/cancel my bug report now?

This seems to be caused a short time problem from the cactuspro webserver.
You got the wrong mime-type in your cache.

I will mark this bug worksforme, it closed then.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

Actaully, no I still see it. Some pages on the site (the ones that end in .html or .php) are correct. But other ones are incorrect. For instance:
- <http://www.cactuspro.com/> is fine
- <http://www.cactuspro.com/glossaire.html> (click on "Glossaire" on the left)
is fine 
- <http://www.cactuspro.com/articles/> (click on "Articles" on the left) is NOT
correct !

Schweich: this is not a bug in Firefox (and it's not new), but a configuration
error on that website. That particular page uses the MIME-type
application/x-httpd-php, but that's not recognized by Firefox. It should have
been application/html . Now Firefox have to assume that it's a binary file, and
only wants to download it. Internet Explorer looks at the content, and will
discover that it's text after all (even html), so it's displayed in the
browser. But that's against the standards.

See
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types>
(for the webmaster).