152864 - Browser does not understand css files with php extension

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[Henning Schaefer]

The browser seems to not understand <LINK REL=STYLESHEET> - tags where the used 
stylesheet is not a *.css file, but a *.css.php3 file taking some parameters 
(e.g. the font to be used) to generate the final stylesheet (which is a correct 
css 2.0 sheet). The browser seems to ignore the file and its contents 
completely, while this works fine with other browsers. After having renamed 
the .css.php3 file into .css, everything works fine, but I have lost the 
capability of dynamically generating the required file.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Make sure you PHP is sending back a "Content-Type: text/css" header and not a
"Content-Type: text/html" header. If it is sent back as text/html then we ignore
it because we don't know how to handle text/html stylesheets.

Comment 2

[Michael Cramer]

That does in fact seem to be the problem:

> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:05:19 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Solution: get your PHP script to send the correct content-type (text/css) for the 
stylesheet (and the correct charset, if possible). INVALID.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

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