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Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

firefox displays a web page as source from a windows Authenticated web server

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Yiipeeia
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WHY DOES THIS DISPLAY AS SOURCE IN FIREFOX?

in IE is displays the line :- WHY DOES THIS DISPLAY AS SOURCE IN FIREFOX? In firefox it displays the whole source of the file ?

<!-- below is a very simple html web pages --> <html> <head> </head> <BODY> WHY DOES THIS DISPLAY AS SOURCE IN FIREFOX? </BODY> </HTML> in IE is displays the line :- WHY DOES THIS DISPLAY AS SOURCE IN FIREFOX? In firefox it displays the whole source of the file ?

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cor-el
cor-el
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You see the page source if that file is send as text/plain instead of text/html.
You can check that in Tools > Page Info > General

Yiipeeia
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So why does it appear correctly in IE and Safari but not Firefox? Do I have to change some settings in the web server? Or Firefox to view it as html?

Yiipeeia
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Aaah haa on that server I had mime type .* set to text/plain so I changed that to :- .txt text/plain and added .htm text/html And cleared out firefox history and reloaded the page and hey presto is showed page correctly.