Last modified: 2012-12-27 20:37:53 UTC
We've had a complaint from Firefox users about webm video not playing back. The issue seems to be that the the file is being served with a mime type of 'text/plain' which will cause Firefox to reject the file. The problem url is http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Experience_ubuntu.ogg/Experience_ubuntu.ogg.360p.webm from http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#Philosophie The issue seems to occur only for some hosts, so perhaps it depends on the commons server in question. I see 'audio/webm' (still incorrect, since it's a video, but sufficient for the video to play) here in Vancouver, Canada, as does another developer in New Zealand, but the complaints are from European users. Perhaps related to bug 38927, which mentions the same behaviour. The firefox bug reference is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=822216
Example headers from the Firefox bug, in case it helps track down the config problem: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: nginx/0.7.65 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 7047217 X-Object-Meta-Sha1base36: ioaqc47g61igozcmwhxdurcb2dcl370 Last-Modified: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:32:25 GMT ETag: a207c9d18961d147d033b500f7c810c8 X-Timestamp: 1352709145.84289 Accept-Ranges: bytes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:02:37 GMT X-Cache: MISS from sq45.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from sq45.wikimedia.org:3128 Age: 162400 X-Cache: HIT from amssq49.esams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from amssq49.esams.wikimedia.org:3128 X-Cache: MISS from knsq19.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from knsq19.knams.wikimedia.org:80 Connection: keep-alive Length: 7047217 (6,7M) [text/plain]
We've closed our issue, since refreshing the cache seems to have fixed it. Please look over the log and see if this is a recurring problem, though.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42860 ***
