264383 - Html code is displayed instead of web page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Pedro Silva]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I'v recently installed a new Apache web server and I've found that some
webpages, not all, are displayed as text/plain instead of text/html. So I get
code instead of a web page. The one thing that is odd in this, is that the
problem is complety random but normaly occurs when rapidly refreshing a page
several times. 
If you right click the page and go to View Page Info you can see that content
type is text/plain.

This problem only goes away when saying to apache that it should use
DefaultContenType text/html (default is text/plain). After this the problem
never comes back...

By the way this problem doesn't appear in IE ....

I've to check also if this isn't an Apache bug.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rapidly refresh a page until you get html code instead of html parsed

Actual Results:  
I get html code

Expected Results:  
Parse the page normaly

Comment 1

[Asa Nathannael Hunt]

similar (not knowingly connected to apache) experience had when browsing to the
below site. Firefox OSX 10.3 G3-400
http://www.jetsetrecords.com/default.asp

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

The URL of this but (not from comment 1) works ok now. 

>This problem only goes away when saying to apache that it should use
DefaultContenType text/html (default is text/plain). After this the problem
never comes back...

That's exactly the problem ! If there's no *.html --> plain/html mapping, then
Apache falls back on the DefaultContentType setting. Firefox only does what it's
asked : if the MIME-type says it's plain/text, then it will be displayed as
plain/text. Ther's no attempt to try to discover the real type (as IE does),
because the HTTP standard requires that the MIME-type has the priority, not the
content.