211217 - adoraentertainment.com - serving HTML as text/plain

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I believe that Mozilla should identify this kind of page, even though it
appears that the content type is not correctly sent.

However, Internet Explorer is able to view this page correctly since it
sees the page as an HTML document and displays it as such.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://motu.adoraentertainment.com/cgi-bin/weblibs.pl
2. The page will load as a text page.
3.



Expected Results:  
I feel that it should have seen the HTML markup language and interpreted it
as a standard web page.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

It's loading as a text page because the server says that's what it is:

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:05:15 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.0 Resin/2.1.9 mod_log_bytes/1.2
mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.3.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
What: text/html
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

So Mozilla does what the server says.  This is not a Mozilla bug.  It is:

1) A server misconfiguration
2) An IE bug that IE will render it

->TE