198991 - twocom.com - Page only displays the HTML source

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jim Wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

This URL will only display the underlying HTML source, it will not render.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

The web server is sending mime type of plain/text.  Mozilla then correctly
renders  it as plain text.

Comment 2

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 198994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Tech Evang

The server sends Text(plain and Mozilla does the right thing here.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 199025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

Seems the site is full of files without extentions, another sample:
http://www.twocom.com/high_performance_synthetics/Royal_Purple_info

Comment 6

[Jim Wilson]

If the site is sending plain text then how is M$ getting IE to render it
correctly? Another one of their "undocumented features" perhaps?

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

That's a bug in IE ! 
IE doesn't look at the send server headers and use his unkown content decoder
instead. Mozilla have also such a decoder but mozilla use it only for old
http/0.9 servers which doesn't send a mime-type.

another example for a binary :
server send text  (wrong !)    : http://www.mversen.de/mozilla/text/mozilla.rar
Server sends correct mime-type : http://www.mversen.de/mozilla/rar/mozilla.rar

Comment 8

[Susie Wyshak]

This article explains the details:
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/mime-types/

Comment 9

[:glob ✱]

this article explains why IE is rendering the code as html (26 hard coded tests):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 11

[Ken Kentavros]

Well this page uses text/html yet it still displays the the page source:
http://www.haravgi.com.cy/20_09_2003/main/001

Comment 12

[Bill Mason]

No, it's not.  If you look at Page Info, you can see that the server has sent
the Type as "text/plain".

If you're saying that because of the META tag, the server setting always takes
priority,

Comment 13

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.