85391 - Download pop-up although file doesn't exist

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Markus Hübner]

When going to the URL
http://www.world-direct.com/gia/test/asdfasdf.asp
or
http://www.world-direct.com/gia/test/asdfasdf.asp
or any other (non existing) page in this directory
a download pop-up window appears.

If you go to
http://www.world-direct.com/asdfasdf.asp
it's displayed correctly (HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found)

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

MIME type for the 2 first urls is text/asp
MIME type for the last one is text/html

I don't know if text/asp is a valid mimetype though

Comment 2

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Server misconfiguration

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Server's response to that request:

------------------------------------------------
HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found
Set-Cookie: WEBTRENDS_ID=66.31.93.112-585978576.29422444; expires=Fri,
31-Dec-2010 00:00:00 GMT; path=/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:18:53 GMT
Content-Type: text/asp
Content-Length: 1810

<!-- #INCLUDE FILE = "PlatFormInclude.asp" -->
<%
	function Decode(str)
		str = Replace(str,"%C3%A4","ä")
		str = Replace(str,"%C3%84","Ä")
		str = Replace(str,"%C3%B6","ö")
		str = Replace(str,"%C3%96","Ö")
		str = Replace(str,"%C3%BC","ü")
		str = Replace(str,"%C3%9C","Ü")
		str = Replace(str,"%C3%9F","ß")
		str = Replace(str,"%20"," ")
		Decode = str
	end function


	dim queryStrings
	queryStrings = Split(Request.QueryString, "/")
	
	dim obj
	set obj = Server.CreateObject("WD_SAL_B2C.WD_HotelData")
	
	dim sXML
	sXML = obj.GetIDByWebShortCut("<sal_params version=""1.0"">" & _
                                    "<sal_param1><![CDATA[" &
Decode(queryStrings(Ubound(queryStrings))) & "]]></sal_param1>" & _
                                    "<sal_param2>" & GetLanguageNr &
"</sal_param2>" & _
                                  "</sal_params>")

	set obj = nothing

'
Response.ContentType = "application/xml"
'
Response.Write "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>"
'
Response.Write sXML

	if not XMLError(sXML) then
		dim pos
		dim hotel_nr
		dim xmlFatObj
		set xmlFatObj = Server.CreateObject("WD_XMLFragTools.WD_FragAccess")
	
    	pos = xmlFatObj.GotoElement(cstr(sXML), "sal_output/return_data")
		hotel_nr = xmlFatObj.GetElementValue(cstr(sXML), pos)

		set xmlFatObj = nothing

		if hotel_nr <> "-1" then
			Response.Redirect "Start.asp?web_shortcut=yes&hotel_nr=" & cstr(hotel_nr)
'
		Session("CurrentSiteName") = "ShowHotel"
'
		Session("CurrentQueryString") = "hotel_nr=" & hotel_nr & "&hotel_nrs="""
		else
			Response.Redirect "Start.asp?web_shortcut=yes&hotel_nr=0&query_string=" &
Request.QueryString
'
		Session("CurrentSiteName") = "NoWebShortcut"
'
		Session("CurrentQueryString") = Request.QueryString
		end if
	end if
%>
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So we do the right thing here.  The server returns a text/asp message with the
404 code, and we're supposed to try to display it.  Too bad we can't display
text/asp content. The server should be processing the ASP and returning it as
text/html.  NS 4.x brings up a "Save As..." dialog here, by the way.

http://www.world-direct.com/asdfasdf.asp correctly returns an HTML mime type and
HTML content.

Over to evangelism.

Comment 4

[Markus Hübner]

The server wasn't configured correctly.
Instead of returning a URL for the 404 error the setting said returning FILE.

Changing this to INVALID

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reopening.  INVALID is not an allowed resolution in the Evangelism component.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Resolving fixed per Markus' comments.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 8

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002022703/WinXP