Oh terrapin?

canadian_wolf · 09-27-06, 10:39 PM

Your site is umm killing me lol. ya see i'm trying to download a mod and any mod that i download it goes through on your page to the "the download will start shortly" part and then it completly dies goes to gibberish. i've tried in IE and firefox and still goes into many pages of giberish. thanks in advance for any help.

there seems to be no trouble shooting on your site besides the handbook, and the shoutbox was useful in this way but alas it was not ment to be.

09-27-06, 11:56 PM

This is a known issue of IE since - at least - 3 years...

found the snippet below in my textfile archive - must be from early 2004 (no source link, sorry):

If you aren’t familiar with this misfeature, well, it’s a “everyone’s at fault” thing where Apache serves up files with unknown extensions with a default MIME type, rather than with no MIME type at all, so Internet Explorer only rarely believes the server-provided MIME type, and instead looks at the content and decides what it really is.

It certainly isn’t an “everyone’s at fault” thing. From RFC 2616 (the HTTP 1.1 specification):

If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource.

Basically, any attempt at file type guessing when a Content-Type header is supplied is a flat out violation of the specification. The blame entirely lies with Internet Explorer. "

canadian_wolf · 09-28-06, 12:08 AM

ah i see well since you know of this problem do you know if there is anything i can do to rid myself of it?

09-28-06, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by canadian_wolf

ah i see well since you know of this problem do you know if there is anything i can do to rid myself of it?

I'd recommend Firefox - it's better in almost every technical and security aspect.

A d/l manager (all should work) together wie IE could also help. AFAIK IE has no problems with *.zip files, - *.rar, *7.z and most multipart things are affected.

What's the big deal having two browsers on a system?...I have 5 here in the office box

canadian_wolf · 09-28-06, 12:37 AM

no big deal at all i use firefox damn near exclusivly i find it much better then IE, i only used IE after firefox decided to do that wierd thing lol

canadian_wolf · 09-28-06, 12:52 AM

AHH okay now i have it i figured a way past this, by right clicking the save as button on the "click here if you are not re directed to the download" button i can save it as the file. thanks terrapin. i wouldnt have figured a way past if you didnt tell me what was up, i figured it for a server error. goes to show what i knows

09-27-06, 10:39 PM	#1
canadian_wolf Watch Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 29 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Oh terrapin? Your site is umm killing me lol. ya see i'm trying to download a mod and any mod that i download it goes through on your page to the "the download will start shortly" part and then it completly dies goes to gibberish. i've tried in IE and firefox and still goes into many pages of giberish. thanks in advance for any help. there seems to be no trouble shooting on your site besides the handbook, and the shoutbox was useful in this way but alas it was not ment to be. Last edited by canadian_wolf; 09-27-06 at 11:00 PM.

09-27-06, 11:56 PM	#2
terrapin Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	This is a known issue of IE since - at least - 3 years... found the snippet below in my textfile archive - must be from early 2004 (no source link, sorry): If you aren’t familiar with this misfeature, well, it’s a “everyone’s at fault” thing where Apache serves up files with unknown extensions with a default MIME type, rather than with no MIME type at all, so Internet Explorer only rarely believes the server-provided MIME type, and instead looks at the content and decides what it really is. It certainly isn’t an “everyone’s at fault” thing. From RFC 2616 (the HTTP 1.1 specification): If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. Basically, any attempt at file type guessing when a Content-Type header is supplied is a flat out violation of the specification. The blame entirely lies with Internet Explorer. "

09-28-06, 12:08 AM	#3
canadian_wolf Watch Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 29 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	ah i see well since you know of this problem do you know if there is anything i can do to rid myself of it?

09-28-06, 12:37 AM	#5
canadian_wolf Watch Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 29 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	no big deal at all i use firefox damn near exclusivly i find it much better then IE, i only used IE after firefox decided to do that wierd thing lol

09-28-06, 12:52 AM	#6
canadian_wolf Watch Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 29 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	AHH okay now i have it i figured a way past this, by right clicking the save as button on the "click here if you are not re directed to the download" button i can save it as the file. thanks terrapin. i wouldnt have figured a way past if you didnt tell me what was up, i figured it for a server error. goes to show what i knows