187009 - Browser will not display page, displays in IE 6, verified page with HTML tidy by w3.org, can not verify with verifier.w3.org due to site outage.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Snala]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

My web-site http://rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com will not display inside the
browser window.  I have verified that the page is correct with W3's HTML tidy
app. But Mozilla will still not display it.  The page WILL display in IE6
though.  I can notverify my page with Validator.w3.org due to a site outage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Mozilla
2.attempt to open the address http://rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com
Actual Results:  
The page source code is displayed.

Expected Results:  
The page should of been displayed just like it is in IE6.  Two collums with
pictues and blue text.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mozilla displays it correct. IE is broken in that case.

you get this (for one frame) :
wget http://rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com/home.htmlf
Resolving rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com... done.
Connecting to rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com[209.171.43.26]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,259 [text/plain]

Your server sends the mime-type TEXT/PLAIN and Mozilla displays it as text-plain.
If you want that mozilla should handle it as html you should tell the server
that it should send text/html for this document.
(ask the admin, change it yourself if you are root or do it yourself with a
.htaccess file [see the release notes section css for an example])

(you can also see the mime-type if you load a frame and use 
"page Info/General/Type")

-> invalid (no bug in mozilla)

Comment 2

[Snala]

When I go to the Page Info area and the General>Type I am showing that is says
"text/html" and this is what I get from grc.com's IDSERVE... (I also have a
screen-capture I just put up at my site..)
http://rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com/cp.jpg

Looking up IP address for domain: rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com
The IP address for the domain is: 209.171.43.26
Connecting to the server on standard HTTP port: 80
[Connected]  Requesting the server's default page.
The server returned the following response headers:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:04:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_ssl/2.8.10
OpenSSL/0.9.6a
Last-Modified: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:34:05 GMT
ETag: "2ae0df1-16c-3e0dee9d"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no !

You get the mime-type for the main document which is correct sending text/html.
Mozilla would not load the frames itself if the main frame would be broken.

right-click on a frame/ This frame / frame Info

-> invalid

please reopen only if you you corrected the mime-type for the frames itself.
(like http://rememberwhoyouare.netfirms.com/home.htmlf)

Comment 4

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

v

Comment 5

[sameer halai]

you have named the frame pages as *.htmlf.
Whereas your main frameset page is named as index.html.

By default, the server is set to send the mime type for *.html as text/html.
Are you sure your server is set to properly output *.htmlf pages with the proper
mime types?

Just rename those frame src pages to *.html and make the corresponding changes
in index.html.

Comment 6

[Snala]

You where correct about the mime types in naming them *.htmlf.  Sorry All!

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

yes, the server sends the default mime-type if you use an unkown extension (for
the web server unkown).
IE ignores this mime-type and will render it but mozilla follows the RFCs and will 
render the page with the mime-type from the server.
You would get a download-dialog if you change the mime-type for an html-document
to application/octet-stream.

Mozilla willl also render a binary file if the server sends the wrong mime-type
 example for a misconfigured server : http://www.mversen.de/mozilla/mozilla.rar