WEIRD problem with MIME & images & permissions (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ha...@hyperreal.com>]

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> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 12:53:59 -0500
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> From: "Steven E. Newton" <sn...@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
> Subject: WEIRD problem with MIME & images & permissions
> 
> Hi.
> 
> This is an extremely strange one, I'm sure you'll agree.
> 
> I'm using Apache version 0.8.11 on HP-UX 9.03 on a 750.
> 
> If an inline GIF or JPG image file has the user execute bit set, no matter
> what other permissions are set to (at least such that the server can read
> the file) then apache returns the MIME type as text/html.  This seems to
> only be manifested as a problem with NCSA Mosaic for Windows 2.0final beta,
> which shows the Error! icon instead.  Other browsers seem to ignore the MIME
> type returned and read the image anyway.
> 
> You can try to reproduce this behavior with the URL
> http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu:8080/apstracts/1995/index.html (our older ncsa
> server is running on port 80, for comparison)
> 
> I think only NCSA Mosaic for Windows will show this behavior.
> 
> Please let me know if you need more info on this or my server configuration.
> 
> s
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