{"id":279,"date":"2005-05-16T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/?p=279"},"modified":"2007-05-09T23:46:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:46:21","slug":"wordpress-bug-msie-internet-explorer-download-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/wordpress-bug-msie-internet-explorer-download-page\/","title":{"rendered":"When MSIE Wants to Download a WordPress Page &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s a <del datetime=\"2005-05-16T23:53:09-02:00\">bug<\/del>feature in WordPress that can make MSIE sometimes willing to <em>download<\/em> a page instead of displaying it normally. Hopefully, this problem is simple to fix. Simply request the following page with your Internet Explorer :<\/p>\n<div id=\"ig-sh-1\" class=\"syntax_hilite\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"toolbar\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"view-different-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"view-different\">&lt; View <span>plain text<\/span> &gt;<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"language-name\">code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<br clear=\"both\">\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"code\">\n\t\t<ol class=\"code\" style=\"font-family:monospace\"><li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\">&lt;problem blog root&gt;\/wp-admin\/upgrade.php<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Unless you run this file, MSIE gets fooled with blank headers (there is indeed a <em>content-type<\/em> in a <em>&lt;meta\/> tag<\/em> within the <em>&lt;head><\/em> section, but the web server is not returning a matching header). The &quot;cool&quot; thing is that this file is accessible without your being logged in the admin area of the blog. The &quot;less cool&quot; thing is that it&#39;s always a bit disturbing to think that anyone can request an admin file, be it harmless or not.<\/p>\n<p>My advice would be that you run this file on your own WordPress blog each time you upgrade (to a beta or to a stable, any upgrade should be concluded with an <em>upgrade.php<\/em>, then delete or rename it. If you happen to visit a site that has the same problem, request the <em>upgrade.php<\/em> page, then notice via email or comment its blog owner so that he can know about this &quot;feature&quot; (feel free to link to this post) and can also rename or delete the file.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest I thought this problem was rather well known, but obviously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminadam.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/15\/bugs-bugs#comment-894\">it&#39;s not<\/a> and this needs more exposure :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSIE asking to download a page instead of displaying it ? Easy to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[72,76,245],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-msie","tag-tips","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}