123674 - stylesheet will not load if filename is not *.css

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Martin Vollrathson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020203
BuildID:    20020203

Since 0.9.7, Mozilla does not use a stylesheet if the filename ends with
anything but .css. I don't know if it's a problem with the filename itself or if
it's the fact that the server says the type is something other than text/css.
Since type="text/css" is specified in the link tag, Mozilla shouldn't care what
the web-server says.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look at the test page.


Actual Results:  The two frames don't look the same.

Expected Results:  The two frames should be identical.

Comment 1

[Martin Vollrathson]

By the way... this is an obvious problem in case the style sheet is generated
through, for example, a PHP script. That's how this bug was discovered.

For a more illustrating example, look at http://www.e-b.nu/ using Mozilla
0.9.7/0.9.8 and another browser, such as Internet Explorer or an earlier version
of Mozilla, and compare what you see.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This is intentional, and I think it should be marked INVALID (unless we want to
mark it as duplicate).  The type given in the markup is merely advisory.  The
type returned by the server is authoritative.  You should be able to configure
PHP / the server to return whatever MIME type you want.

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Yep, see bug 46225.  The HTTP spec is the standard we follow in this case. 
dbaron is correct.  the type attribute is only a hint to tell us what to expect.
 If the server tells us something is text/plain though, then we don't parse
styles from that file.  We only parse styles for files served as text/css
(standards mode only).  So the extension is not really the issue here.  It is
the content-type.  PHP defaults to sending "text/html" for every php script, but
you can override this on a per-script basis by including this (before anything
is outputted)  In your PHP scripts, Simply do:

<?php

header("Content-Type: text/css");

?>

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111586 ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

reopening.  This should be evang, different page.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

actually, nevermind.  I suck.  There is no real page involved, just a
misconfigured test....

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

verified

Comment 7

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** Bug 206621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***