On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:27:39 +0200 Tim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think it's a problem with firefox, it looks like a screwed-up > webserver which, judging by your earlier emails in this thread, you > don't have much hope of getting fixed. Although he said it does work on an iPod Touch, Windows machine, and a Macbook... that's quite a few of browsers. It's hard to believe that Firefox and IE under linux are the only unforgiving browsers for this misconfigured server. But it could be. > I'd try http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/installation.html first to > verify that it is the content-type header that's wrong Good idea. Use livehttpheaders (or wireshark or something) to see what's really transpiring between your computer and the server. > and then https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3207 to workaround > the problem by forcing firefox to see the content-type to text/html Hey, that's a useful plugin to know about. Thanks. - Chris Burkhardt > > Mike Pobega wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Tim Edwards > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > So what is actually in the login.pl file that your college's > > webserver sends to firefox? Is it perl code (presumably their actual > > login script)? Or is it HTML? or is it blank? > > > > I have heard a rumour that if the webserver doesn't send the right > > Content-type header (eg. Content-type: text/html) IE will just > > assume it's text/html and will display the page as normal. Whereas > > firefox will decide it doesn't know what the data is (could be > > binary or anything) and consider it to be a file to download. But > > that is only a vague idea I have - no idea if it's even close to > > correct. > > > > Tim > > > > > > No, actually, that sounds about right. Oh, and as for the file... > > > > Firefox says "Download login.pl?". Half the time it downloads home.html, > > and half the time it downloads login.pl, both files blank as /dev/null. > > I guess it's a problem with Firefox, then? > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
