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Stylesheet MIME type incorrectly interpreted as text/html since upgrading to v10

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Hi,

I dynamically load a CSS file with some javascript like this:

domStylesheet = document.createElement('link');
domStylesheet.setAttribute('rel', 'stylesheet');
domStylesheet.setAttribute('type', 'text/css');
domStylesheet.setAttribute('href', 'http://my/css/url');

This has always worked until I upgraded to v10 (from v4.6), now I get the error 'The stylesheet http://my/css/url was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css"'.

Hi, I dynamically load a CSS file with some javascript like this:<br /> <br /> <pre><nowiki>domStylesheet = document.createElement('link'); domStylesheet.setAttribute('rel', 'stylesheet'); domStylesheet.setAttribute('type', 'text/css'); domStylesheet.setAttribute('href', 'http://my/css/url');</nowiki></pre> This has always worked until I upgraded to v10 (from v4.6), now I get the error 'The stylesheet http://my/css/url was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css"'.

Modified by cor-el

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With which content type is the file send by that server if you open the file directly in a tab? Tools > Page Info > General

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type shows as text/html. Incidentally, I've tried loading the file in html markup with a <link> tag but get the same error.

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Stylesheet files should not be send as text/html, but should be send as text/css

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I've already tried changing my apache server config both with a TypesConfig file and explicitly with an AddTypes directive. But, looking at the HTTP headers in LiveHTTPHeaders, the server is sending them as text/html so I suppose the server is at fault. Maybe it always has been sending the wrong type and Firefox 10 no longer allows the type to be overridden on the client side?

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Solved it.

Configure Apache to handle .css files with php:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .css

Then set the content type with the php header function with this line at the top of the stylesheet file:
<?php header('Content-Type: text/css'); ?>

Modified by cor-el