Eddy Petrisor wrote: >On 8/18/05, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >There's no such thing as not viewable in FF remotely and viewable in >FF locally. Either FF supports it or it does not. >There is a set of standard. The page is not visible because is not >standard compliant. > >Probably wget is broken and does some mangling, but that does not >change the fact that the page is not compliant. > > > >>wget the site and surf it locally with ff everything looks well, but >>surfing online to sponsors.debian.net -- I just get a white page with the >>above code. >> >>There seems to be a difference between my local an the foreign version of >>this page -- at least for ff. >> >> > >At least for wget. Firefox should not care about the location of the page. > >I don't want to shoot anybody and the site is great, but these kind of >problems can be avoided/fixed by means of using standards. > >Please mark "pass validator.w3c.org" on the todo list. > > > There is a difference. When viewed remotely, the webserver reports a mime type in the Content-Type: header, while locally it is autodetected. If the server claims a web page is text/plain then Firefox will correctly display it as plain text regardless of the actual content. I encountered a site with an incorrectly set type just a few days ago. That said, sponsors.debian.net is reporting correctly as text/html for me so it seems unlikely that this is the problem.
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