229030 - casghockey.com - Stylesheet not loaded because it has text/plain MIME type

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: French, defect)

Description

[Brice Delmotte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7

Report from the javascript console :
Error: The stylesheet http://www.casghockey.com/themes/new/style.css was not
loaded because its MIME type, "text/plain", is not "text/css".
The line of the stylesheet related is the following :
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="themes/new/style.css">

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the URL http://www.casghockey.com
2. The font is ugly
3. Go to the javascript console to see the errors noticed in details



Expected Results:  
Load the stylesheet, I'm sure the line referencing the stylesheet is right, I
made myself the website :
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="themes/new/style.css">

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Seing the same with branch build 20031218, Windows XP.

Comment 2

[Robert Mohr]

Since you made it yourself, are you sure the web server is set to send files
with a .css extension as text/css?  I don't know if this would make a difference
(especially since you specifically give it a mime type in the link tag), but it
could be the culprit.

Comment 3

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

The server is sending the CSS file as text/plain.  From the JS Console:
"Error: The stylesheet http://www.casghockey.com/themes/new/style.css was not
loaded because its MIME type, "text/plain", is not "text/css"."

Because you're in standards compliance mode, text/plain CSS files are not loaded
(the type from <link> is only a suggestion).  Either change to quirks mode
(http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/) or have the server actually
send .css files as text/plain.

Look for a file called "mime.types" in your zeus server config directories that
tells the server what MIME type to send for each file (example at
http://support.zeus.com/doc/examples/nsapi/default_conf.html).

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

->Invalid.  Server settings need to be corrected.

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

Changing component to Tech Envangelism

Comment 6

[Brice Delmotte]

I see, I made the web site, so I can modify the files, but I cannot modify the webser, I can ask the 
company hosting the site to do it, I have several contacts.
 Anyway, I think Mozilla should autodetect it is a .css file and use it as if it had the right MIME type, 
no ?
It works well, with all other browsers.

Comment 7

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

Brice: see http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/incorrect-mime-types/

Comment 8

[Brice Delmotte]

Thank you for all this information, I'll ask the hosting company so they change their server 
configuration, I understand the problem now. Maybe it is not the right place to discuss about this, 
but should we change the navigator to quirks mode for people who don't know anything about 
technology, in general ? We are a company making a linux distribution for a light PC we will sell, 
we use Mozilla Firebird, and do not want our customer to have strange behaviour of the navigator. 
As a developer I'll continue using it in strict mode for my tests.

Comment 9

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

fixed