156145 - strict on css mimetype requirements (i.e doesn't load it if it's plain/text)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Newell]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

Some server has **** mime handelling ...

i upload a css file (and i can only upload it as text/plain, as i cant change
the servers mime handelling (not mine))
and then mozilla doesnt load it as it is not text/css....

but other browsers do IE, Konq etc. etc.
Also netscape 6.2 loads it with no problem... so i can only assume moz1.o+ is
too strict.

(ive tried it in moz1.0 and moz1.1alpha)...

Cheers, Aaron!
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.upload a css file (with the webserver giving it a text/plain mime type)
2.upload a html file linking to that css file
3.look at the index.html file now.

Actual Results:  moz doesnt load the css file

Expected Results:  load the css file (it's too strict on the mime type (other
browsers arent)+ i cannot change the mimetype handeling (it's not my server +
they wont(ive asked))

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

You can remove the doctype in your document and mozilla use the internal quirks
Mode and accepts also css files with a wrong mime-type.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you can also add .htaccess if your ISP use Apache.
(see the release notes..)

Comment 3

[Aaron Newell]

but then without <!DOCTYPE i dont get valid html (via the w3c checker)

which i __really__ want. :(

Comment 4

[Aaron Newell]

i have no access to the server...

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Aaron, just removing the DTD url from your doctype will make it trigger quirks
mode.  See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/ and
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html

The problem is that your document _is_ valid HTML, and is treated as such.  This
includes standards-compliance in rendering, loading stylesheets, and other such
matters.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 182236 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 230073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[JP Vossen]

As noted above, if you can't get the server fixed, you may be able to use an
.htaccess to add the mime type yourself, for your directory.

See:
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/incorrect-mime-types/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 238076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 311155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***