Closed Bug 645013 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

coldwatercreek.com serves up an incorrect MIME type to Gecko 2.0-based browsers because of UA string format change

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: eh1eh, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Firefox 4.0 asks which program to use to open coldwatercreek.com. When forced to open it with Explorer a page of HTML source code appears. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.type, www.coldwatercreek.com into address bar or use google to get web link. 2.Hit enter and / or click on google search link. 3.Pop up asks which program to open file with. Actual Results: Web page not displayed Expected Results: Web page should have been displayed Happens on two different Win 7 64bit machines with FF 4.0 A third Win 7 64bit machine with FF 3.6 will display the page properly.
This is a server bug doing incorrect User Agent sniffing: with a Seamonkey trunk UA I get : Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Cache-Control: private Content-Type: application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 20065 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:38:12 GMT Connection: close Note: The content-type is wrong, they send us a mobile version. This is ok if you use a FF3 UA. -> no bug in Firefox, moving to Tech evangelism Someone should contact the site owner and report the problem.
Assignee: nobody → english-us
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → English US
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-us
This does *not* happen in Camino with the "like Firefox" portion of the UA removed, at least not as far as I can tell, but since the sniffing is server-side it's awfully difficult to tell what other browsers it might happen in, or exactly how it's broken. (FWIW, I don't see the problem in my really old Seamonkey Mac build here, but I'm in the process of downloading both the latest Sm release and trunk nightly and testing those, too.) There's also a bunch of client-side JS sniffing of varying degrees of bogosity on that site. Mike, please let the site know they're broken, and feel free to point them here for assistance. Matti, if you know of other browsers or platforms that are broken, please let me know.
OS: Windows 7 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Summary: Will not open www.coldwatercreek.com, this is an .aspx file. Firefox 3.6 will open it. → coldwatercreek.com serves up an incorrect MIME type to (some) non-Firefox Gecko browsers due to server-side UA sniffing
I can't repro this in Seamonkey 2.0.x on the Mac, either, FWIW.
(In reply to comment #3) > I can't repro this in Seamonkey 2.0.x on the Mac, either, FWIW. I notified the site and downloaded 3.6 to solve the problem in the short term. Thank you Chris and Matti.
Chris: The problem is the UA format change that happened with Gecko2 This is the same case as with the two or three other cases. (The "morningstar" case). They all use IIS and this seems to be an error in some kind of framework or the default IIS configuration.
Matti: I forget what bug that was, but can you mark this one as blocking that one since we know exactly what caused this to happen? I missed that this happened in Firefox 4 as well. Oops. Sorry 'bout that. I'll fix the summary.
Summary: coldwatercreek.com serves up an incorrect MIME type to (some) non-Firefox Gecko browsers due to server-side UA sniffing → coldwatercreek.com serves up an incorrect MIME type to Gecko 2.0-based browsers because of UA string format change
This seems to be resolved with Firefox 8.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Does it still happen in Firefox 4? It definitely needs to be tested in more than just Firefox.latest.
verified fixed with FF5.0 and SM trunk on win32
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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