Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Mike Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
Some web browsers (notably IE) will still work with incorrect headers
in situations like this, which is why your college's IT department
probably hasn't had enough complaints to fix it if it is their perl
code sending incorrect HTTP headers to you. I've run into similar
issues with my own CGI scripts :-).
Here's a few things to try:
Try clearing FF's cache, then reload the page and see if it works.
I've heard that bad headers can get cached even if the problem no
longer exists.
Try the same version of Firefox on Windows if you can, and see what
happens. If you get a similar result, its most certainly on the
college's end.
-Elijah
http://elijahr.blogspot.com/
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