671852 - Default character encoding are different between mirror servers

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

Attachment: screen shot

Build Identifier:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/52617959b48e
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110715 Firefox/8.0a1 ID:20110715030758

Default character encoding are different between mirror servers.
The look of the page changes. see attachment.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox with New Profile (without addons)
2. Open In New Tab http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/tracemonkey-win32/
3. Open In New Tab http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-win32/
4, Reload them several times to change mirror server

Actual Results: 
  Mirror sever         : character encoding
  dm-ftp01.mozilla.org : ISO-8859-1
  ftp1.dmz.sjc1.mozilla.com : UTF-8
  ftp2.dmz.sjc1.mozilla.com : UTF-8

* maybe not all 

Expected Results:
  character encoding should be constant between mirrors.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

huh, I didn't think dm-ftp01 was even in the pool anymore.

Comment 2

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

This was caused by a different default between our RHEL5 and RHEL6 configs. Should be fixed now, along with a few other minor differences.

To be clear, I updated dm-ftp01 to use UTF-8... seemed like the more i18n-friendly thing to do.

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

ftp.mozilla.org Port 80 returns ISO-8859-1,

Is this intentional?

Comment 4

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

For better or worse, yes, that is intentional.

The particular reason is that Apache's auto-index pages like that are served with the charset of the underlying filesystem... in this case, it's an NFS mount, and apparently it was not set up as a UTF-8 volume.

I can force Apache to return UTF-8, but this won't have any good effect. The README header shown at the top of the page is not localized- there is only that one (English) version. Additionally, the actual filenames and directory names would still all be English.

If you can find a page that looks wrong, we can try forcing it and see what happens. :)

Comment 5

[Alice0775 White]

OK Thanks. and I am sorry bug spam.