Re: .wav file oddity

Andy Mabbett <usenet200309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In message <DDUaZFFvsdGHFwGI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andy Mabbett
<usenet200309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

On:

<http://www2.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1165902603265&;
pagename=Birmingham.gov.uk%2FBCCLayout>

(aka: <http://tinyurl.com/3bfuf7> )

there is an image of an ear, which links to a 57-second, 2.5Mb, .wav
file.

Selecting the link in IE causes the file to play on the default player,
and downloading from that link saves a .wav file named "Satellite"
(with no file extension).

Doing so in Opera has the same results.

In FireFox, though, the file plays for only a second or so. Saving it
from Firefox saves it as an HTML file, also called "Satellite" (and
again with no file extension).

What's up?

Are you all stumped?

It looks like a client issue to me. The link is to a seemingly normal
stream of RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16
bit, mono 22050 Hz (according to Linux's file command) and the server
response looks sane:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:20:14 GMT
Server: Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.3.1.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=7f00000122b82aada438d9e54fc1a64f84e22f21e49c; path=/cs
host_service: FutureTenseContentServer:6.3.0
Connection: close
Content-Type: audio/wav

Works with every browser I've tried (including FF on Linux).

--
Ben.
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