Closed Bug 271912 Opened 20 years ago Closed 14 years ago

designofsites.com - HTML page displayed as plain text

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: vdm, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This page was displayed as plain text HTML source code. I saved the file to my
Desktop and renamed it to index.htm, and opened it with 'Open File' and it
worked fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit URL. http://www.designofsites.com/about_the_book/index.shtm
2. Observe.

Actual Results:  
Displayed as plain text HTML source code.

Expected Results:  
Render the HTML.
Upon further examination:

- Most of the other pages in this site have the same problem (check the links
  in the box on the left of the page).
- All the pages exhibiting this problem seem to have been created with
  Microsoft Frontpage.
These .shtm pages work fine in Safari.
The server says those pages are text/html, so we treat them as we are told and
display them as text. The server is misconfigured. Please email the webmaster
and ask to have the broken server fixed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → English US
Ever confirmed: true
OS: MacOS X → All
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: firefox.general → english-us
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Summary: HTML page displayed as plain text because of .shtm extension → designofsites.com - HTML page displayed as plain text
Oops. The server says text/plain. Text/html is what they should say for us to
treat them as html.
(In reply to comment #4)
> Oops. The server says text/plain. Text/html is what they should say for us to
> treat them as html.

I understand what you are saying; namely the server is sending incorrect
entity metadata. Nonetheless, from the users point of view, Safari works
on this page, and Firefox doesn't, ergo "Firefox is broken". For better
or for worse, its not as easy as it should be to configure servers to
send proper metadata.

I doubt this is the only site misconfigured; why make the user suffer?

Maybe there is a google query which could give us a sense of the scale
of the problem.

How about checking for a leading "<html>" and ignoring the metadata if
its there?

I'll email webmaster@designofsites.com ; but I still think this is a bug
that needs to be resolved.

PS What does product: 'Tech Evangelism' mean?
Assignee: firefox → english-us
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.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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