696584 - Planet.mozilla.org won't load in IE8. IE asks to download unknown file type

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: planet.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[u88484]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #514653 +++

Planet.mozilla.org won't load in IE8.  IE asks to download unknown file type. 

I filed bugs on this for IE7 and the fix worked for a couple of weeks then showed up again (bug 518092).  I upgrade my work computer to IE8 and the bug wasn't present but two years later this popped up on IE8.  Started happening yesterday on 10-21-2011

Comment 1

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Hey long time no hear!

Anyway hate to say this seems like an issue on your end, but I am completely unable to reproduce this on my work computer running IE8.

Comment 2

[u88484]

Worked one time after I filed the bug but now just tried again and still get the prompt to download.

Yeah, lots of hours at work this year and not much time for anything else :/  I'll be back to the usual testing and filing bugs in a week or two.

Comment 3

[u88484]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 5

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

I got to workaround this by loading the site on http://planet.mozilla.org/index.html, so it could be just a redirection issue.

(Windows XP, Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702, and the local machine is being a squid proxy)




$ curl -I planet.mozilla.org
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache
X-Backend-Server: pm-web03
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=300
Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:43:21 GMT
Expires: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:48:21 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:34:06 GMT
X-Cache-Info: caching
Content-Length: 557911
X-Cache: MISS from fw.???.ac.il
X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from fw.???.ac.il:3128
Via: 1.0 fw.???.ac.il:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE21)
Connection: close

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Are you still seeing this now?

Comment 7

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Sorry, but realistically I don't think anyone's going to work on this at this point.