143851 - Mozilla doesn't render html pages when mime type set to text/plain

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[nrg]

By going to http://eremi.net , the webpage's HTML source code is displayed
rather than the actual webpage.  By checking out page info, i noticed that the
mime type is text/plain.  I'm not sure if it's something wrong with that
webserver but the site renders fine in IE.  I checked with Netscape Communicator
4.79 and the same problem occurs.  I believe that any .html file should be
rendered, regardless of mime types.

nrg

Comment 1

[Felix Schwarz]

I think mozilla behaves absolutly correct as the mime type says what type of
data it is (and not the ".html"). It's a feature, not a bug (but a bug in IE)
and shouldn't be changed in my opinion.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The page sends text/plain and mozilla renders this content as text/plain.
This is the correct way and IE is broken.


-> TE (Canada)

Comment 3

[Dave]

I sent an email to remi@<nospam>eremi.net telling him about this issue, so
hopefully he will reconfigure the web server to deliver the correct mime type.

Comment 4

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Web page now text/html.  WFM.

Comment 5

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.