Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:41:04 UTC
When trying to view or edit pages I am sometimes prompted to download the page instead of viewing it normally. This is intermittent but happens about 1 out of every 10 page hits. I have enabled, then disabled the "Use External Editor" option but that did not fix the issue.
FreeBSB 6.1-REL. Apache/2.2.3 (Unix) PHP/5.1.4 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1, MySQL 5.0.21
Any difference in HTTP headers each time?
I'm not sure how I could check that. The logs show nothing unusual, the page hits that show the pages correctly and the page hits that prompt for download are the same as far as I can tell.
I noticed that the byte counts (number of bytes transfered) were different between hits for the same page, but the wiki is being used over https, so I think that is to be expected.
This problem does not seem to happen when using IE6, only Firefox 1.5.
Is the page gzipped? If so, this is bug 7098.
Making an educated guess that it's a dupe. If the download is not a gzipped HTML page, please reopen this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7098 ***
The pages are not gzipped.
Please post a network trace; at least HTTP headers from Firefox's Live HTTP Headers extension should help.
Apparently I stand corrected. Below are hits, the bottom one is ok, the top one is when the page tried to download. The encoding says gzip for both. Freaking great. And the bug that's marked fixed does me no good. I'm running vanilla install on up to date software, no mention of what I need to change in my settings. https://www.riftweak.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page GET /wiki/index.php/Main_Page HTTP/1.1 Host: www.riftweak.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Referer: https://www.riftweak.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit Cookie: wiki02UserID=1; wiki02UserName=Seg; PHPSESSID=d6ea1ba8a70f6d8db10de2bb2fedcff0; wiki02_session=95437aac551ab0b9171ccaafd9d93f2f If-Modified-Since: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:14:32 GMT If-None-Match: W/"wiki02:pcache:idhash:1-0!1!0!2!!en!2--20060821074812" HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:12:29 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Unix) PHP/5.1.4 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 Connection: Keep-Alive Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=98 Etag: W/"wiki02:pcache:idhash:1-0!1!0!2!!en!2--20060821074812" Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie ---------------------------------------------------------- https://www.riftweak.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit GET /wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit HTTP/1.1 Host: www.riftweak.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Referer: https://www.riftweak.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Cookie: wiki02UserID=1; wiki02UserName=Seg; PHPSESSID=d6ea1ba8a70f6d8db10de2bb2fedcff0; wiki02_session=95437aac551ab0b9171ccaafd9d93f2f HTTP/1.x 200 OK ----------------------------------------------------------
My observations: - This only happens with English Wikipedia, not with the Norwegian one. - It happens 100% of the time I try to edit a page, never when I try to edit a section. - I've only tried editing articles with Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3.
New commenter: turn off "use external editor" in your user preferences. Unable to reproduce the bug this bug is about, and no comments in a long time; assuming original problem was a local crashing bug or other such problem. Reopen if original problem continues and further information is available to debug it.
At my site we've been having similar problems and have traced it down to this PHP bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25753 HTH
