679428 - www.royalpaper.us - Firefox not displaying PHP files on websites properly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[zeonis]

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.

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

  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

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Misconfigured server -> TE

Comment 3

[zeonis]

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?

Comment 4

[Thomas Ahlblom]

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

Comment 5

[Thomas Ahlblom]

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.

Comment 6

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Bug still exists in FF29. Moving to desktop component.

Comment 7

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Checked it out in IE to get the contact info. [e-mail] if someone wants to reach out.

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

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