[fwd] How NOT to build an open source site...

Thu Jan 29 17:26:20 UTC 2004

Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2004 13:34, Byron Sonne wrote:
...
> A simple mistake, at least they're running Linux on their server.  They may 
> have good intentions.  I be willing to bet that If they add the following 
> line to their apache config that all will be well:
> 
>   AddType text/html .shtml
> 
> Their pages rendered fine for me once saved to local disk.

This is a pet-peeve of mine with MS IE.  It renders a text/plain as 
text/html if it is "valid" html.  It's an IE bug, but if you tell a site 
owner that their site doesn't work unless you're using IE, they'll say 
the problem is the browser, not the server.

I mean, IE 5.5 renders the following CGI as HTML, whereas Mozilla and 
Netscape render it properly as text:

#!/bin/sh
cat <<EOF
Content-type: text/plain

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>This is a test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>This is an HTML body
</BODY>
</HTML>
EOF

Of course, I only know this because I've made the same mistake myself :-)

I have it posted ( http://vorpal.ca/cgi-bin/blah.cgi ) if anyone has 
newer versions of IE/Konqueror/whatever they want to throw at it.

-Mike

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