websites with wrong MIME

blurp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 102

I need to access this stupid website but the webserver keeps returning the MIME-type as application/octet-stream. As a result, Firefox keeps popping me a dialog asking me to save a BIN file. I downloaded it and verified that the file is indeed a HTML document.

How can I view that website properly in Firefox? I tried looking for MIME in Firefox extensions but can't find anything...

didymos · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:12 am Post subject:

Get the contact address through whois (you may need to negotiate some further bureaucratic layers) and email the webmaster and tell them they're an idiot. Or you could go with the diplomatic approach.
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blurp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 102

Judging by their stupidity, I don't think I should even waste time talking to them. They probably will say something like "What is Firefox? The website displays fine in my computer. You know, the 'e' icon."

So I sort of worked around the problem by using WINE with that stupid software.