Re: Firefox failure to render a page

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taharka:
>> Mind posting the website so some here can take a look? 

Frank Cox:
> https://nbt.gxsolc.com/nbtxsl/Sobeys882T.xml

A "the webmaster is an idiot" fault...

Try this, so you can diagnose for yourself:
  lynx --head https://nbt.gxsolc.com/nbtxsl/Sobeys882T.xml

And you'll get the following back:
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1
  Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:24:11 GMT
  Content-type: text/plain
  Last-modified: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:42:14 GMT
  Content-length: 2472
  Accept-ranges: bytes
  Connection: close

The critical part is the "text/plain" content type.  The server is
erroneously telling the browser that it's being sent plain text, so
that's how the browser (correctly treats it).  MSIE seriously breaks the
rules by ignoring, against the HTTP specs, the content type and tries to
guess what it should be doing (which, in other situations, leads to all
sorts of nasty security problems - which is why you don't do that sort
of thing).

There's only one correct solution:  The webserver HAS to be fixed.
There's no question about it, there's no shirking away from it.  It's
broken, it's 100% THEIR fault, there's NOTHING that you should have to
do to accommodate them, and there's probably nothing that you can do to
force most browsers to misbehave like MSIE.

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