Image loading problem. All I see is garbled text. Help!

[mucor]

I can't seem to view full size pictures in my photo gallery with Firebird. All I see is garbled text.

Loads fine under IE.

Problem is here...

Go to

http://www.gfxbank.com/

Login under their demo acct. and click on an image to get full size.
(direct link http://www.gfxbank.com/is.php?i=279&img=ref30.jpg )

Thumbnails are fine but clicking on it to get full size opens a new window with just a bunch of garbled text.

Doing this in IE works fine.


Any suggestions?

[Legoguy]

This is a server problem. They aren't specifying the mime-type (filetype) as image/jpeg, instead text/plain.

[mucor]

If it is a server problem, why does it work with IE?

[Dunderklumpen]

If it is a server problem, why does it work with IE?

Because IE does not follow standard and corrects such problems. That is - IE does not handle files and images tha way it is intended. This IS a server problem and according to standard any server out there should have the right MIME Type set for any file sent out. In this case images are set to be handled as textfiles.

[mai9]

in other words, ie is part of the Matrix while Firebird is the real world

[Äkiidoll]

Im hitting it hard & heavy in Moz 1.5/FB 0.7+, viewing
images at all sizes in the thumb nails as well as full size
images. Martina is very beautiful.
Geck0 r0cks

[Guest]

I emailed tech support for gfxbank.com and the problem has been fixed.


The problem was not with the server apparently but with the script running the site. Browsers other than IE were reading the image as a text file anddisplaying the code that actually makes up the image. They redefined the script as an image using Header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); and now when the browser
visits the page it knows that it is an image file.