# Prompted to download octet-stream

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prompted-to-download-octet-stream/143735>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 22, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prompted-to-download-octet-stream/143735 "2008-07-22T11:30:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dino\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@dino\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dino_d)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prompted-to-download-octet-stream/143735/1 "2008-07-22T11:30:50Z")

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Hi -

I have a rails site which works fine on my dev machine, works fine on  
my host with ie6, but with firefox, on certain pages, it prompts me to  
download an octet-stream. Anyone ever seen this and any ideas why?

If not, can anyone suggest what steps I should take to figure out  
why? In other words, where should I look, what and how should I be  
logging, if anything, to diagnose the problem?

Thanks,  
Dino

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**Author:** ![dino\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@dino\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dino_d)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prompted-to-download-octet-stream/143735/2 "2008-07-23T03:52:33Z")

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In case anyone has this problem, switching from fcgi to to Passenger  
solved this.