Firefox cannot open PHP pages

[Janine Costa]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When I try to open PHP pages, the firefox asks me if I want to download the page. Or, when I'm opening pages with a PHP code, the firefox doesn't show the result. Please, help me! What can I do?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Janine Costa (janinescosta)]

Ok, I've understood.
Thanks for the reply!

2009/2/5 Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>

> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
> to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
> issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
> cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
> Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
> --
> Firefox cannot open PHP pages
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325565
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "firefox-3.0" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> When I try to open PHP pages, the firefox asks me if I want to download the
> page. Or, when I'm opening pages with a PHP code, the firefox doesn't show
> the result. Please, help me! What can I do?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64
>

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[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Can you please give me a few links that dont work so we can test on our PC's

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please let us know which sites are having trouble? Thanks!

[Uran (fetahuuran)]

it's funny since firefox is also asking me to download php files.... but only if click on them directly from www folder, otherwise no problem with browsing php based pages.

Maybe Janine figured that out and that's why she's no longer complaining!

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Firefox doesn't know what to do with plain text files with a .php extension. When you go to a website with a .php extension, the webserver returns a text/html or similar type file that firefox knows how to render. If you navigate to the www directory and try to open a .php file, Firefox will not know what to do with it. This is standard behavior.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you, since this was standard behavior, I closed this bug. Please feel free to report any other issues you may find.