my lighttpd handles *.pl, but not *.html in firefox/chrome

5883 · 05-03-2013, 09:34 AM

everything works fine in IE.

when i open *.pl in ff/chrome, also fine.

but if i open a very very basic *.html in ff/chrome, they will download the file, instead of opening it in the browser.

so confused, any suggestions ?

Thanks !

sag47 · 05-03-2013, 12:58 PM

What do the HTTP headers say?

Code:

curl -D - -o /dev/null "http://someurl.com/file.html" 2> /dev/null

Let me know the output.

SAM

5883 · 05-03-2013, 01:02 PM

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Password protected"
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 351
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 18:02:24 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.28

117 351 117 351 0 0 118k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 171k

Quote:

Originally Posted by sag47

What do the HTTP headers say?

Code:

curl -D - -o /dev/null "http://someurl.com/file.html" 2> /dev/null

Let me know the output.

SAM

5883 · 05-03-2013, 01:05 PM

Actually i get rid of the password,

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 100
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 18:04:56 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.28

0 100 0 100 0 0 45913 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 97k

sag47 · 05-03-2013, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 5883

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

There's your problem. That's why standard browsers are trying to download it rather than view it directly. IE generally does whatever it wants as a rule of thumb. The Content-Type header value should be...

Code:

Content-Type: text/html

There must be some configuration for the Content-Type somewhere in lighthttpd.

EDIT: Look for the mimetype.assign. In the config files.

Quote:

list of known mimetype mappings NOTE: if no mapping is given "application/octet-stream" is used

You probably just need to give html files a mimetype.