148591 - ``Enriched Text format'' shown as plain text, rather than formatting properly.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[dcary]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://wso.williams.edu/~eudora/kens/sample.etf 

Actual Results:  I can see all the tags, brackets and all. It's just as if this
were a plain text file. It's displayed in a monospace font.

Expected Results:  I expected formatted text. Various words appear bold,
underline, big, small, etc.

Is this a regression ?

  http://wso.williams.edu/~eudora/kens/etf.html
claims that earlier versions of Netscape can display formatted ``Enriched Text
format'' files. But the version of Mozilla I have today just displays the raw
text source.

I don't see many ETF files on web servers, so this isn't real crucial.
However, we already handle ETF files that come from email servers -- see
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16197
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65159
. maybe it will be simple to re-use that code to handle ETF files that come from
web servers.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Netscape 4.78 displays the given URL identical to Mozilla - all tags.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

For once MSIE6 also displays it as text - all tags showing.

Comment 3

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

http://webtools.mozilla.org/web-sniffer/view.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwso.williams.edu%2F%7Eeudora%2Fkens%2Fsample.etf
shows:

HTTP/1.1 200 OKCRLF
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 10:27:12 GMTCRLF
Server: Apache/1.3.24 Ben-SSL/1.47 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2CRLF
Last-Modified: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:05:48 GMTCRLF
ETag: "1db5c0-1ad2-3505d55c"CRLF
Accept-Ranges: bytesCRLF
Content-Length: 6866CRLF
Connection: closeCRLF
Content-Type: text/plainCRLF
CRLF
[...]

So Mozilla displays plain text as such. This is correct.

pi