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

Mon Nov 4 21:03:03 UTC 2013

On 04/11/13 20:12, Bryan White 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.

text/text is not a valid mime [1], you probably wanted text/plain. It's 
not clear if that's the full issue for "no longer function". Perhaps you 
were simply bitten by browser updates.

1- https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text