Weird download thing

[clyzm]

When I go to www.dxalpha.com as a whole, Firefox gives me a popup message to "download something". I don't know what it is, but it won't get me to the main page (I have to go to www.dxalpha.com/posting.php then on the home page).

Here is a pic of it:

[clyzm]

I guess it went away...

[Dae]

It happens sometimes with firefox when the connection lags out.

[Alistair]

Or when Apache hasn't got php as a registered module.

[Dae]

Or when Apache hasn't got php as a registered module.

No, not in this case. If you saved this posting.php to your hard drive and opened it, you could see that it's just a part of HTML code without any PHP.

[Alistair]

Yeah but the screenshot shows that firefox recognises it as x-httpd-php ;o

[Dae]

Yeah but the screenshot shows that firefox recognises it as x-httpd-php ;o

It doesn't know that it's just a piece of html code. It judges the file type on it's extension.

[Alistair]

Yeah its the servers fault not the client. The apache server doesn't have PHP module registered, so therefore it offers to user to download it. It happened when I was running a script called phpsysinfo on my server without php installed (apache2-mod-php4/5).

[Dae]

I meant Firefox.

Yeah but the screenshot shows that firefox recognises it as x-httpd-php ;o

It doesn't know that it's just a piece of html code. It judges the file type on it's extension.

And if PHP wasn't installed, the file would contain php code of our phpBBs posting.php.