Allright, I did some digging. I clicked on a readme file of one of the products. Chrome indeed downloads the file instead of directly opening it. So does Firefox So I dug a little deeper.

It seems renderosity doesn't serve it's mime-types correctly. Mime-types tell the browser what type of file it is. When serving the readme.txt file the header tells the browser its:

Content-Type:·application/octet-stream

By default a browser doesn't show the contents of that because it's not text (or html). At least according to that header. What it should be is:

Content-Type:·text/plain

That tells the browser it's just plain text which can be displayed accordingly. Rendo needs to modify the download script so it serves the right mime-type. I suspect the current script just serves every dowload with the same header.

IE is a bit odd in this as it does display the text, but it shouldn't do that. So it's more like a bug in IE that it does.

On a side note. It appears Rendo is running apache 2.0.52. That's very old (over 8 years). That need to be upgraded ASAP because it has plenty of vulnerabilities.

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