On a few websites, particularly accessing profiles on Myspace, I get a pop up that asks what to do with a b.ashx file. In the case of Myspace it is coming from b.myspace.com The only option is to save it since there is no program to handle it. The size is 0. Opening in gedit shows nothing.
It is incredibly annoying, any ideas?
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Avoid sites that push random files at you? That seems to be the way to go
in general.
Good luck.
hito kiri wrote:
> On a few websites, particularly accessing profiles on Myspace, I get a
> pop up that asks what to do with a b.ashx file. In the case of Myspace
> it is coming from b.myspace.com The only option is to save it since
> there is no program to handle it. The size is 0. Opening in gedit
> shows nothing.
>
> It is incredibly annoying, any ideas?
>
>
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okay, so it would be really nice if someone other than the retard posting good luck would respond, i have the same problem, happens every time i sign in to myspace and hinders progress of things.
any information on solving the problem would be greatly appreciated, thank you for your time all, have a nice day
Hi
It’s some javascript thing… maybe an email to myspace admins may help?
MySpace.BeaconAddress="http://b.myspace.com/<b
style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">b.ashx</b>?";
function viewerIsLoggedIn() { return
MySpace.ClientContext.IsLoggedIn; } function
getDisplayFriendID() { return
MySpace.ClientContext.DisplayFriendId; } function
currentUserIsFriend() { return False; }
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With that in mind you could add the NoScript plugin to FireFox to prevent
execution of less-desirable scripts from less-desirable sites to prevent
that which apparently “hinders progress of things.”
Good luck.
Malcolm wrote:
>
> Hi
> It’s some javascript thing… maybe an email to myspace admins may help?
>
> MySpace.BeaconAddress="http://b.myspace.com/<b
> style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">b.ashx</b>?";
>
> function viewerIsLoggedIn() { return
> MySpace.ClientContext.IsLoggedIn; } function
> getDisplayFriendID() { return
> MySpace.ClientContext.DisplayFriendId; } function
> currentUserIsFriend() { return False; }
>
>
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Myspace is the only site I have seen the issue. Also only occurs when running Suse. With Debian, Kubuntu, CentOS, and Windoze, I don’t get the popup.
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Are you using the same version of the same browser on all OS’s? As this
only happens on MySpace I’d start by checking with them. When a site adds
JavaScript to their site that causes something to happen then the issue is
either with their code or perhaps a bug in your browser. Since others
seem to see it as well and since Malcolm identified some JavaScript that
may cause it I’d start with the website. Alternatively try the previous
solutions and potentially block it from the site.
Good luck.
ninpo wrote:
> Myspace is the only site I have seen the issue. Also only occurs when
> running Suse. With Debian, Kubuntu, CentOS, and Windoze, I don’t get
> the popup.
>
>
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Hi
Used httpfox on windows XP and it treats the line as text/plain on this
machine it’s trying to treat it as application/x-ashx.
Now if I use about:config on the windows machine there are is no mime
entry to either /etc/mime.types or ~/.mime.types hence the reason it
works.
If you open firefox and then enter about:config in the URL bar. The
filter on mime. Then double clicke on the helper entries and clear the
entries helpers.global_mime_types_file and
helpers.private_mime_types_file, then restart firefox.
As to the implications, unknown but give that a whirl as a temp fix as
these entries aren’t used in windows.
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I’m using mozilla firefox3.0.10 and was having problems with this b.ashx file message when going to myspace.I solved it by getting adblock plus in the firefox add-ons.After installation,look for the ABP stop sign top right next to the firefox search box.Click black arrow,go to preferences,Go to filter at top left,Click on add filter.You see a space provided type http://b.myspace.comClick apply at bottom,then go to myspace and hopefully you have fixed the problem
I might try that one then, noscript blocks too much. With no script if I block myspacecdn.com it keeps b.ashx from popping up, but keeps many things from working.
Anybody find a real resolve for this? I’m getting it as well… Just haven’t worked on it yet.
Several suggestions have been made here. And FYI, when I tried Opera it was fine.
Hi
Tried registering with an Overrides.xml in ~/.local/share/mime but that
didn’t work. In windows there is no reference to mime types in
about:config but in openSuSE it references /etc/mime.types and
~/mime.types and tried adding text/x-ashx: *.ashx to both without any
success…
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Food for thought:
File Extension .ASHX Details
Solved - Firefox 2.0 Tries To Download Aspx Pages Under Suse 10.2 - openSUSE Forums
In firefox go to about:config and filter mime_types. Note the file in the home directory; ~/.mime.types. Make/edit the file;preferably as the user, with text/html ashx in it. Test it; works for me. The other file is supposedly a Global “mime type database” for the entire system and all users. You should be able to put it in there as well; it didn’t work for me. Probably needed a restart or something though.[le shrug] But hey… I’m the only one around actively using my machine… let alone linux.
This is pretty much a mod of fix derived from the links I posted earlier. The fix is supposed to be for ASPX and it worked as well. The ASHX file is pretty much like a php page with java in it. That is to say it’s like a client side script that works with the serverside. Yeah, MS does crap like that. The language is based of the ASP.NET framework; as I understand it. And I dare not defile my *nix machine by loading MS crap on it just to stop a pop-up. By manually appending the mime type you declare that all ashx files will be treated as a text file and interpreted as an html page. So that fun ashx scripting stuff they had in there… goes poof. Everything else is read as a standard HTML page.
Close no cigar… You were on the right path… Does Suse know what to do with X-ASHX files? Do you know what that is and what to do with them? And your format was off. Where’d you get the ~/.local/share/mime/Overrides.xml?
For Windows: this is not a windows forum… 
Doing with out knowing is the same as jumping before looking… Information and Knowledge are useless with out Understanding.
In case your wondering… I’m not yelling… >:( … j/k… me bored
Hi
Hmmm, didn’t work here on 3.5
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Hi
The OP only observed this with openSuSE, hence the check in windows to
see the about:config of firefox 
cat .local/share/mime/packages/Overrides.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<mime-info
xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
<mime-type type="text/x-ashx"><comment>ASP.NET Web Handler
File</comment><glob pattern="*.ashx"/></mime-type> </mime-info>
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Doh!! Got it sorted now, on nntp your bold showed “text/html ashx”
get rid of the asterisks and all is good (and I don’t even use myspace!)
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Lol… What? You live under a rock? Everybody has a myspace these days… it’s the Gonorrhea epidemic of the early 21st century! XD
Twitter is better… The Clap of the mid 21st century…