[21385] in Athena Bugs
Re: mozilla & websis on solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Thu Jan 30 17:40:51 2003
Message-Id: <200301302240.RAA02668@multics.mit.edu>
To: chris avrich <cda@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, websis-notify@MIT.EDU, kdorsey@MIT.EDU,
olcsuper@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:20:52 EST."
<20030130222052.GH20444@scar.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:40:43 -0500
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> In trying to submit data in websis (e.g. entering the PE lottery),
> mozilla believes it is downloading a file of type "application/x-sh",
> and thus fails to submit the data. If he selects "open this file with
> mozilla", a new mozilla window pops up and gives the same message.
I've seen this behavior before. I am absolutely certain it has
nothing to do with the browser version or the type of machine the
browser is running on. I would guess that the CGI script is, under
certain circumstances, failing to send a "Content-type" header, and
that the web server is for some reason filling it in as
"application/x-sh", which is presumably the MIME type of the script
file itself. I note that the data retrieved is invariably valid
HTML data, which tends to support my hypothesis.
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
