On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Tim Edwards <[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?
