ASP.NET sites — Served With The Wrong Mime-Type

You remember the article I had written about Starbucks solving an error on their server. They were serving HTML with the wrong mime-type to Opera only because of user agent sniffing. They fixed it. They are definitely not the only ones. Other Web sites have exactly the same bad behavior. You may see that there is a pattern. The servers and libraries used are almost always the same.

All these sites and the ones previously solved are into the package OTW-6223. I'm trying to contact each of these sites one by one. It is time consuming with not always a success at the end. Not everyone is as diligent as Rohan Singh (still big respect for him).

  1. if you are a user of this Web site or if you know someone working in the IT department of these companies, please point them to this blog post and ask them to contact me.

  2. If someone from Microsoft is listening, please please please, send a fix to Web developers using ASP.net on their Web sites. I suspect it is a rogue library doing very bad user agent sniffing in ASP.Net. These developers will love you. They will not have to suffer me anymore ;)

Web sites serving HTML as application/xhtml+xml to Opera
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New York-New York Hotel
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
ASPCA
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
MGM Grand
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Share Builder
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Logitech
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
		X-AspNetMvc-Version: 2.0
		X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Sam Shortline Railway
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
		X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
AllHipHop.com
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: PleskWin
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
		CommunityServer: 2.0.60217.2664
Car Buyers Guide
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Responsible Sports
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Go Army
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Phenomblue
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
P.F. Chang's China Bistro
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
McAfee
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Excalibur - Las Vegas
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Merrill Edge
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Walmart Money Card
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
		X-AspNetMvc-Version: 2.0
Nelnet
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Soundview Executive Book Summaries
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
		X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
		X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Ella Moss Official Store
X-OS-Node: 22.5.4