Why is Firefox prompting to download a file that is POST'd to?

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Published on 2010-05-12T23:38:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 23:44 UTC
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This is the most peculiar thing.

It is from an old in house CMS.

When I attempt to submit my changes, it prompts to save the file linked in the action attribute of the form.

Headers

Request

POST /~site/edit/articles/article_save.php?id=54 HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://example.com
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Length: 940
-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="title"

Home Content
-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="catid"

18
-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="activecheck"

1
-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image"


-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="contentWidgToolbarSelectBlock"

<p>
-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="content"

<p>Edit your article in this text box.</p>
-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="contentWidgEditor"

true
-----------------------------10102754414578508781458777923--

Response

HTTP/0.9 200 OK

And then Firefox shows....

Firefox

I can't determine from the response headers as to why this is prompting to open/save. It has always worked. All other PHP files on the site work fine.

Anyone have a clue?

Thanks

Update

Apparently, it just crashes Safari.

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