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Re: survey.aspx at Microsoft

Subject: Re: survey.aspx at Microsoft
From: "Lee Harvey" <leeharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:45:31 -0400
Newsgroups: opera.general

John H Meyers wrote:
> I visited http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262680
> tried to fill in and submit the "survey" at bottom of page;
> response was that I'm asked to _download_ "survey.aspx"
>
> Using 9.27/8841 (Win32),
> newly installed on new WinXP computer,
> rather than the "preemie" new Opera version
> (which still seems to need intensive neonatal care :)
>
> Why does this happen

Because Microsoft doesn't know how to configure their web servers.  You will 
notice in Opera 9.27's file download dialog, that Microsoft serves this file 
as "application/octet-stream" -- which is incorrect.  I suspect it should be 
served as "text/html", so any browser can open it and render it.  Although, 
after saving the survey.aspx content and viewing it in my text editor, I'm a 
bit suspicious -- perhaps Microsoft cannot figure-out the language code, 
encoding, or content-types being requested/submitted by Opera 9.27.  Who 
knows.


> , and how to correct?

Contact Microsoft and have them change the Content-Type returned by their 
survey.aspx page.  Or, disable JavaScript for the support.microsoft.com 
domain, and you won't see those survey forms. ;)



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