I have a website containing a link to an RDP file. When the user clicks the link, the file should be offered as a download. It works with every browser, also in IE9 on localhost. But online, IE9 does not recognize the file type and the file name, and clicking on save causes an error. Did I forget a correct header? Or are there some trusted site settings I have to change since it works on localhost?
I get the following headers when accessing the rdp file:
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:58:50 GMT
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Demo_WIN.rdp"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 72
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=46
Connection: Keep-Alive
username:s:Tester431
full address:s:176.1.2.3
domain:s:MYRDP
I think you need to set the content type to "application/rdp". Here are the relevant headers I use, which work on every browser I've tried, including IE9:
Content-Type: application/rdp; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Application.rdp
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Context
My github pages are not refreshing. After diagnosing my conclusion is it's a server side caching effect.
What I did + diagnostic results
The site is working OK.
I made a change in index.html in my local
repo, then commit and push
I completely cleared my browser cache (btw also using cache clear plugins, and Chrome dev tools set not using cache)
Reloaded the page, with ctrl+f5 and ctrl+R (change is not applied)
Checked using github.com read index.html, the change is there, committed.
Monitored the traffic with Fiddler. The request for index.html sent, full response received, the content is the old NOT changed.
Examined the response header with Fiddler, says: (see header exhibit)
Reverse diagnostic
I've issued a request with a usual trick typeing: index.html?v001orAnythingYouWant and I got the new version of the page
Problem
Problem solved one can say, but it is not true. When I refresh images, css, js still this effect will prevent me to see the new result.
Question
How can I configure or overcome this server side caching, of course only for development/testing time?
Response header exhibit
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Last-Modified: Fri, 06 May 2016 12:24:29 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Expires: Fri, 06 May 2016 12:45:44 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=600
X-GitHub-Request-Id: B91F111E:5AA6:47804:572C8F9F
Content-Length: 43752
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 12:35:57 GMT
Via: 1.1 varnish
Age: 13
Connection: keep-alive
X-Served-By: cache-fra1238-FRA
X-Cache: HIT
X-Cache-Hits: 1
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Fastly-Request-ID: 1758f53052edbfb40a0044407d53d5654ad1e983
I am using swagger-UI 2.1.3 for API documentation and in backend, I am using spring-webmvc .
I have one API which returns a pdf file, it works fine if I type the URL in browser (it popups a download and downloaded file works fine)
But the same api won't works in swagger ui, it gives me a download link after clicking on "try out", and that link downloads a file, but that file shows me blank pdf pages (corrupted pdf file) .
The response headers are following
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Pragma: public
Expires: 0
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Description: File Transfer
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="example.pdf"
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Content-Description,Content-Disposition,location
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 268288
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:18:16 GMT
Any solution around this ?
Addition Info:
This questions seems similar -
AngularJS: Display blob (.pdf) in an angular app
There they are saying that set responseType to arraybuffer in xhr, But i think that swaggar will take care of that (maybe i need to set some configuration??)
I've inherited a website that contains about 100 audio files. The links to the files are relative links like this:
part 1
Back in the day those usually forced a download. Newer browsers now play the audio in browser. Except....
If the user comes to the site over https they are able to navigate the site and the html pages load, but the links to the audio files generate a 403 Forbidden error. Changing the protocol in the location http allows the mp3 to load and playback in the browser.
Why would the mp3 files be forbidden over https?
Is there a way to force the http protocol without having to make all the links absolute links? I notice the relative links "inherit" the protocol of the page they were loaded on. There isn't anything on any of these pages that need https so I wouldn't mind forcing all the parent pages to load over http....
This is a departmental site within a giant university. So I don't have access to the server, htaccess, or any of those kinds of tricks. All in browser, javascript, html solutions please.
UPDATE
I installed Firebug to view the headers and discovered that the audio plays fine in FireFox (on my mac). In Safari they load and play, but the controls don't show the progress or time, but they do play. And in Chrome they don't play at all.
I had also checked them on my PC at work and they don't play in IE9 (I know! Corporate IT, right?) or Chrome.
Here is what I get for headers in Firefox where the audio plays fine.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:39:04 GMT
Server: Apache
WWW: www3
Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto
Last-Modified: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:19:25 GMT
Etag: "78e935-d60ac-4952c3e68d540"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 876716
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
GET /dept/area/language/stories/sounds/file.mp3 HTTP/1.1
Host: example.edu
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
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
Referer: https://example.edu/dept/area/language/stories.html
Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.829124232.1405280613; BIGipServerWWW-HTTP=1378527424.20480.0000; _gat=1
Connection: keep-alive
And these are what I get in Chrome.
Remote Address:128.122.119.202:443
Request URL:https://example.edu/dept/area/language/stories/sounds/file.mp3
Request Method:GET
Status Code:206 Partial Content
HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:46:12 GMT
Server: Apache
WWW: www4
Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto
Last-Modified: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:19:12 GMT
ETag: "78e939-158dbc-4952c3da27800"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1
Content-Range: bytes 382271-382271/1412540
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
GET /dept/area/language/stories/sounds/file.mp3 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nyu.edu
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36
DNT: 1
Referer: https://example.edu/dept/area/language/stories.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,es;q=0.6,hi;q=0.4,pt;q=0.2
Cookie: _ap_utmz=57748789.1416681263.3.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); _ap_utma=57748789.722895429.1387124094.1423327171.1425612794.7; __utma=57748789.194555315.1387124094.1423327171.1425612794.7; __utmz=57748789.1416681262.3.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); BIGipServerWWW-HTTP=1395304640.20480.0000; _gat=1; _ga=GA1.2.194555315.1387124094
Range: bytes=382271-382271
If-Range: "78e939-158dbc-4952c3da27800"
HTTP Request and Response Headers
Make sure to read about headers, mime types and content encodings.
You could try to utilise the Content-Disposition response header
An opportunity to raise a "File Download" dialogue box for a known MIME type with binary format or suggest a filename for dynamic content. Quotes are necessary with special characters.
Source: Wikipedia
Anyway your issue seems like a http header issue, could be compression as well. Take a look at your headers and whats different and troubleshoot from there. When you understood the problem, you can think of solutions.
Troubleshooting Tools
Use firebug or chrome developer tools to investigate. Fiddler Proxy to simulate different headers, since you have no access to your server.
File Permissions
Could be that SSL runs as another user or config on your server and the mp3 files have the wrong permissions or their parent directory. You need to check those, but since you have no server access you could be out of luck.
However, if SSL is not important to you just link to the files like so:
<a href="http://yourDomain.tld/folder/anotherFolder/file.mp3">
This will enforce the http protocol being used for the links. Most likely this results in the SSL chain being broken due to the mix in of http traffic into your ssl secured traffic. Therefore there's another alternative to achieve what you want:
Meta Refreshes
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; URL=http://www.yourNonSSLDomain.tld/">
This will redirect to your non-SSL website where you can make sure to not mix https and http resources in your html document.
I have a web application running on Glassfish. The application is written in Java using Servlets.
The application allows you to upload files and get a direct link to that file.
For some reason, Safari and Chrome (possibly other browsers) have issues playing MP3 files (and other audio/video files) uploaded to this application.
An example uploaded MP3: http://uploads.graalcenter.org/upload/test.mp3
Sometimes, Safari will load the file and play it correctly, but most of the time it either stays on "Loading..." forever, or starts playing for a few seconds and then stops downloading it.
My browser is sending these request headers:
GET http://uploads.graalcenter.org/upload/test.mp3 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7) AppleWebKit/535.1+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Safari/534.48.3
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://uploads.graalcenter.org/info/test.mp3
Cache-Control: max-age=0
My server is responding with these response headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:02:03 GMT
X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.0 JSP/2.2 (GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.2-b06 Java/Sun Microsystems Inc./1.6)
Content-Length: 1137602
Server: GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.2-b06
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Accept-Ranges: none
For comparison, I have uploaded the same file to an Apache server here.
The server responds with these headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:06:56 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 1137602
Last-Modified: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:05:57 GMT
Server: Apache
Etag: "1aa08001-115bc2-4a953f48b6b40"
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
The file plays correctly.
The only difference I can see is that my application does not accept range requests, but this shouldn't cause any issues, should it?
If I download the MP3 from my web application via curl, it has the same MD5 hash, so it's not corrupting the MP3 in any way.
Does anybody have any idea what might be causing the MP3 to not play correctly?
It seems like the problem was AppleCoreMedia, the plugin which handles audio, doesn't work correctly when not using range data. I wouldn't make the leap of blaming it on Apple, as it's entirely possible I made some mistake, but I ended up implementing the HTTP Range header and the it now works every time.
Is there a way to check whether a web server supports HTTP 1.0 or 1.1? If so, how is this done?
You could issue a:
curl --head www.test.com
that will print out the HTTP version in the first line of the output...
e.g.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 28925
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:08:04 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "a41944978f6c91:0"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:13:25 GMT
In Google Chrome you can see protocol of each requests like this
open developers tools with F12
go to Network Tab
right click any where in column headers (like Name in the picture) and from the context menu select Protocol to be displayed as a new column
then you will see values like h2 (HTTP 2) or http/1.1 entry like the following picture in Protocol column
This should work on any platform that includes a telnet client:
telnet <host> 80
Then you have to type one of the following blind:
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
or
GET /
and hit enter twice.
The first line returned should output the HTTP version supported:
telnet www.stackoverflow.com 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 315
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:15:15 GMT
Connection: close
Read the release notes or the documentation of the webserver to check that. For example Apache Tomcat documentation tells it supports HTTP 1.1
Which webserver are you looking for?
Also are you asking if this can be checked programmatically?
In Google Chrome and Brave, you can easily use the Developer tools (F12 or Command + Option + I). Open the Network tab, find the request, click the Header tab, scroll down to "Response Headers", and click view source. It should show the HTTP version in the first line.
In the screenshot below, the server is using HTTP/1.1, as you can see: HTTP/1.1 200 OK. If that is missing, it's HTTP/2, since there is no readable source, it's in binary instead.
Alternatively, you can also use netcat so that you don't have to type it blindly as in telnet.
user#linux:~$ nc www.stackoverflow.com 80
HEAD / HTTP
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Connection: close
Content-Length: 0
user#linux:~$
$curl --head https://url:port -k
You get result something like...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
blah....blah.
blah...blah..
$
So first line shows version it supports..