Closed
Bug 316300
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
petitiononline.com - page sent as text/plain
Categories
(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
English US
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: pandey, Unassigned)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
When you open the site http://www.petitiononline.com/rti00/petition.html in Fire Fox, all you see is HTML code. It looks like the Firefox has problem in processing the HTML on this website. [See sample pasted at the end]
Internet Explorer however works fine and nice.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>
Protest Suberversion of Right to Information in India Petition
</title>
<meta name="description" content="Protest Suberversion of Right to Information in India Petition, hosted at PetitionOnline.com">
<meta name="keywords" content="Protest Suberversion of Right to Information in India Parliament and Government of India Ram Kishun Dusadh online petition petitiononline.com grassroots marketplace free speech political activism petitions ">
<base href="http://www.PetitionOnline.com/rti00/petition.html">
</head>
<body bgcolor="FFFFFF">
<table width=100% height="62" cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1>
<tr>
<td align=left valign=bottom width=100% height="62" bgcolor="#909090">
<a target="_top" href="http://www.PetitionOnline.com/petition.html"><img align=bottom border=0 hspace=2 vspace=0 src="/images/dc_icon-60.gif" width=60 height=60 alt="dc"></a>
<!-- Begin Google Banner -->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5090005701884356";
google_hints = "petition advocacy grassroots democracy free speech Parliament and Government of India Ram Kishun Dusadh Protest Suberversion of Right to Information in India";
google_alternate_color = "909090";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="6386483977";
google_color_border = ["FFCC00","909090","909090","CCCCCC"];
google_color_bg = ["FFFFBB","909090","909090","FFFFFF"];
google_color_link = ["0099FF","000000","FFFFFF","000000"];
google_color_url = ["000000","000000","FFFFFF","666666"];
google_color_text = ["000000","000000","FFFFFF","333333"];
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open in Firefox URL http://www.petitiononline.com/rti00/petition.html
2. Then open in Internet Explorer the URL http://www.petitiononline.com/rti00/petition.html
3. compare the results
Actual Results:
Firefox shows underlying HTML code of the site
Expected Results:
Firefox should process the HTML code and render website.
This is frustrating because Firefox users cannot view this website.
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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The page is sent as text/plain (vs text/html). Firefox is correctly displaying it as plain text. ->tech evang
FWIW, I briefly checked other pages on the site, and they all displayed correctly.
Assignee: nobody → english-us
Severity: critical → normal
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → English US
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-us
Summary: The site does not open in Firefox-1.5 but works fine in Internet Explorer → petitiononline.com - page sent as text/plain
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Updated•20 years ago
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OS: Windows NT → All
Hardware: PC → All
(In reply to comment #1)
> The page is sent as text/plain (vs text/html). Firefox is correctly displaying
> it as plain text. ->tech evang
>
> FWIW, I briefly checked other pages on the site, and they all displayed
> correctly.
>
If this page is sent as a text, How does Internet Explorer display it as HTML?
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Comment 3•20 years ago
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Internet Explorer heuristically determines that it looks like HTML, and processes it as such. The standard only allow this behavior when the content-type is not specified (see RFC 2616 section 7.2.1). IE's behavior is useful in this case, but ignoring the specified content-type causes problems in other situations.
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Updated•10 years ago
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Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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