Our site uses the ConfirmAccount extension, which allows registration requests to include a CV (supplying one is a pre-requisite for becoming an editor on our site - normal users are registered as authors). I have identified a problem - the response to the download request for the CV contains a content-encoding header value of ", gzip". This befuddles some browsers, such as FF, IE and Safari and they fail to decompress the file.
My guess is this is an apache configuration problem or an apache bug, but on the off-chance my guess is wrong and it has something to do with MW configuration, I thought I would bring the issue up here. If this is not an MW problem, then confirmation of that will narrow down the search space for a solution. Here is the request and response headers (I have obscured some file and cookie information using ellipses to ensure privacy - the output is from HTTPFox running on Firefox): (Request-Line) GET /wiki?title=Special:ConfirmAccounts/ editors&file=to...v.pdf HTTP/1.1 Host en.citizendium.org User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 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 115 Connection keep-alive Referer http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:ConfirmAccounts/ editors&acrid=... Cookie __utma=184949757.... (Status-Line) HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:27:46 GMT Server Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) X-Powered-By PHP/5.3.5 Expires Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate Pragma no-cache Content-Disposition inline;filename*=utf-8'en'to...v.pdf Last-Modified Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:25:51 GMT Content-Encoding , gzip Vary Accept-Encoding Content-Length 48636 Content-Type application/pdf X-Cache MISS from aristotle.citizendium.org X-Cache-Lookup MISS from aristotle.citizendium.org:80 Via 1.0 aristotle.citizendium.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE21) Connection keep-alive Note that the Accept-Encoding header in the request specifies "gzip, deflate", while the Content-Encoding value in the response is ", gzip". I have posted a query about the problem on http://groups.google.com/group/ comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix, but have not received a response. (I posted the query over two weeks ago). This problem occurs on both our live wiki, which runs on 1.13.2 as well as our test wiki, which runs on 1.16.2. The apache version is 2.2.3. -- -- Dan Nessett _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
