[support] Bizarre behavior with uploaded PDF files

[Bob Smither]

On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 14:45 +1100, Peter Horn wrote:

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> Hi,
> I don't know what causes it, but I can tell you what's happening, thanks 
> to that wondeful Firefox addon 'httpfox'.
> It's all in the content-type response header, as follows:
> January: application/pdf
> December: binary/octet-stream
> November: unknown/unknown
> 
> As a guess, I'd say that the "what kind of file" decision was made at 
> the time it was uploaded to Drupal, and has "stuck" with the file ever 
> since. The data is good in all cases, which is why you can open it 
> locally, and the downloaded December is readable.

Many thanks Peter!  Still a mystery as to how the headers got scrambled,
but this at least tells me to try removing the offending files and
loading them again.

Best regards,
-- 
Bob Smither <Smither at C-C-I.com>