Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:27:39 +0200
Tim Edwards <timothy.edwards.ext@siemens.com> 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
> > <timothy.edwards.ext@siemens.com
> > <mailto:timothy.edwards.ext@siemens.com>> 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?
> >
>
>
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