129036 - Javascript is not executed on internal web page

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[jimshep]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020304
BuildID:    2002030409

When looking at the following webpage (I believe it is internal only)
http://cos.corporate.ge.com/pls/cosapp/pkg_cos_p_search.p_pos_f_srch_crt, only
the text of the javascript code is displayed, but not executed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto http://cos.corporate.ge.com/pls/cosapp/pkg_cos_p_search.p_pos_f_srch_crt
2. Look at output (text only)
3.

Actual Results:  Text of page shown, including html tags and javascript code.

Expected Results:  I believe a javascript based form should be displayed.

I will attach the source for this page.

Comment 1

[jimshep]

Attachment: Contents of webpage

Comment 2

[Marc Boullet]

WFM 2002030308 NT4 (at least with attachment 72589 [details]). The URL you mentionned
gives me A DNS error (maybe intranet name).

Therefore, if there is a regression, it is between 3-3 and 3-4

Will retest with build from 03-05

Comment 3

[Marc Boullet]

Reporter,
Just an idea: Are you sure the web server is not serving the page
as text/plain instead of text/html.
To verify that, load the page, then View->Page Info and look at type.

Comment 4

[jimshep]

Yes, "View->Page Info" does show that the page is being served as "plain/text".
 Unfortunately, IE displays it correctly, so even though it is wrong, it won't
be fixed.  Is there any way to get Mozilla to display (run the javascript)
(in)correctly?

Comment 5

[Marc Boullet]

Don't think so.
CCing [e-mail] who might be of greater help.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

invalid (I can't send it to evangelism because it's an internal page)

IE use content sniffing for all data but that violates the standards.
Mozilla do this only for Http/0.9 server because they don't send a content type.
Your server must send the correct mime-type if it use Http/1.0 or Http/1.1.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Matti is correct.  Pages sent as text/plain should be shown as text, period. The
server is always right.