Closed Bug 679428 Opened 13 years ago Closed 8 years ago

www.royalpaper.us - Firefox not displaying PHP files on websites properly

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: zeonis, Unassigned)

References

(
URL
)

Details

(Whiteboard: [Content-Type: application/octet-stream]) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Build ID: 20110811165603

Steps to reproduce:

Browsed to www.royalpaper.us/earth_first.php


Actual results:

Firefox does not display the page properly and also asks whether you want to open or download the php file.


Expected results:

It should have just displayed the web page without prompting to open or save the file and also displayed the web page properly with all graphics. On Internet Explorer 9 the web page displays properly with no issues.
Summary: Firefox unable to display PHP files → Firefox not displaying PHP files on websites properly
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Connection: keep-alive
  Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:06:22 GMT
  Content-Length: 32341
  Content-Type: application/octet-stream
  Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:14:19 GMT
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  ETag: "a546fcc8ca9dcb1:83cf"
  Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
  X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

The server sends the file as an octet-stream and Firefox has no clue how to show those ones and zeros.

Reproduced:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110816 Firefox/8.0a1
URL: http://www.royalpaper.us/earth_first.php
Misconfigured server -> TE
Assignee: nobody → english-us
Component: General → English US
OS: Windows Vista → All
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-us
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: Firefox not displaying PHP files on websites properly → www.royalpaper.us - Firefox not displaying PHP files on websites properly
Whiteboard: [Content-Type: application/octet-stream]
Version: 6 Branch → unspecified
OK so there is a problem in how they configured their server. Why does it display properly in IE9? I guess it is configured differently depending on the browser being used? Or somehow IE9 is not obeying web standards?
I faked an IE9 User Agent string in Firefox but I still got an application/octet-stream.

It seems like Internet Explorer may both peek into the data and look at the file name extension: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775147%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
The misconfigured web server problem is further described here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types

And as I already found in comment 4 Internet Explorer tries to guess the MIME type when the server configuration is broken.
Bug still exists in FF29. Moving to desktop component.
Assignee: english-us → nobody
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: English US → Desktop
Ever confirmed: true
Checked it out in IE to get the contact info. info@royalpaper.us if someone wants to reach out.
This has been fixed.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.22, ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:12:46 GMT
Content-Length: 35522
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
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