[Lxr-dev] [ lxr-Bugs-749886 ] IE views ok, Netscape gets html code seen

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Bugs item #749886, was opened at 2003-06-05 17:13
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by rustycar
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Category: Browsing
Group: v0.9.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Rusty Carruth (n7ikq)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: IE views ok, Netscape gets html code seen

Initial Comment:
After installing lxr on a linux mandrake 9.1 machine,
everything works just fine if I view the ident, source,
etc 'pages' from M$ Internet Explorer.

However, galeon, mozilla, and netscape all seem to
prefer to show you the actual html rather than the
result of interpreting that same html.

Strange discovery we made is that, using galeon we can
save the file and load that saved file and it renders
correctly!  If that's not strange enough, we downloaded
the url using wget and it rendered fine on the first
try.

Is there some kind of timing issue with NS that IE
doesn't have???

Weird...

rc aka n7ikq.

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Comment By: Rusty Carruth (rustycar)
Date: 2003-06-18 08:53

Message:
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Oh - n7ikq and I are the same person, sorry - I forgot this
password
so created myself as my ham callsign.  Now I've forgotten
the n7ikq
password!    That's what I get for coming up with such good
passwords
and not writing them down...

When I remember my n7ikq password I'll go close this item.

rc/aka n7ikq/aka rustycar

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Comment By: Rusty Carruth (rustycar)
Date: 2003-06-18 08:48

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AH!  That did it!

Might be good to put into the documentation somewhere that
some
browsers, when driven by slower computers, need this:

ForceType text/html

in the 

<Files ~ (find|search|source|ident|diff|cgi-bin)$>

section.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-06-18 08:01

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This is a browser issue. Just add this to your lxr/.htaccess
file:

ForceType text/html

(My complete .htaccess file is shown below):
Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymlinks

order deny,allow

<Files lxr.conf>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files lib>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files ~ (find|search|source|ident|diff|cgi-bin)$>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB lib
ForceType text/html
</Files>
~
~

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Comment By: Rusty Carruth (n7ikq)
Date: 2003-06-07 15:20

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Ok, so I did a wget -S and it said:

rcarruth@msfree> wget -S http://localplace/lxr/ident
--15:06:51--  http://localplace:80/lxr/ident
           => `ident'
Connecting to localplace:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
2 Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 22:12:53 GMT
3 Server: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.44 (Mandrake
Linux/11mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.44
OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1
4 Connection: close
5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
6 X-Pad: avoid browser bug
7 

    0K -> .....

15:06:52 (345.52 KB/s) - `ident' saved [5661]

rcarruth@msfree> less ident
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0
transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11;
I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) [Netscape]">
    <title>Sapphire identfier search</title>
    <base href="http://localplace/lxr/">
    <link href="lxr.css" rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css">
</head>

<body>
<table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0'
cellspacing='0'>
  <tr>
.....etc...

Now, I load the above 'ident' file wget got, and it displays
fine.
However, if I instead go to the url that FETCHED that file,
I get
the source of the file not the display it should have
gotten.

(I looked through all the places where lxr could say
'text/plain' and changed them all to 'text/html' and STILL
wget says 'text/plain'...

rc aka n7ikq.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-06-06 14:17

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The most likely explanation is that the webserver is
returning the contents as text/plain rather than text/html.
 IE (incorrectly) interprets such text as html anyway,
whereas Netscape/Mozilla don't.

The lxr code does put out a content-type header, so it
should work, but perhaps Apache is configured in a weird way.

You can use wget -S to check what is being returned in the
headers.

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