[Labs-l] Can no longer use Content-type: text/text and web server is slow

[John]

I would agree Ive seen pages loading about 15x slower than normal

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Bryan White <bgwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> My cgi programs that use "Content-type: text/text" no longer function.
> >> Those that use "Content-type: text/html" do work.  If I replace
> >> text/text with text/html, the scripts work, but the output is not what
> >> the bots expect.  All bots are currently unable to run.
> >>
> >> An example is:
> >>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki_bots.cgi?id=003&project=frwiki&action=list
> >>
> >> The above will not work in FF or IE, but will in Chrome.
> >
> >Have you tried using text/plain as a MIME type instead of text/text?
> >
> >--
> >Antoine "hashar" Musso
>
> I just did and it works.  I originally had to use text/text as
> text/plain wasn't working many moons ago.  One of the admins said use
> to text/text.
>
> I gather the "fix" is no longer needed and was removed Friday/Saturday.
>
> As the speed of the web server dropped to cold tar running uphill
> levels on Friday/Saturday, would another change to the web server's
> confiig file be causing the problem?
>
> Bryan
>
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