Hello!
I'm considering migrating my company's desktops from IE to Firefox, but have run into a small problem. Our initial webmail page seems to only work with IE. When I try to access it with Firefox, it displays the source code, not the actual page. We don't have a webmaster and I'm not a web developer. Here's the link to the page: http://www.mansonconstruction.com/webmail
I'm thinking that the problem is with this line: <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.mansonconstruction.com/servlet/webacc">, which does a redirect, but I can't figure out what's incorrect about it.
The page that this is supposed to redirect to (/servlet/webacc) works just fine in Firefox, so the problem seems to be getting this redirect to function.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Firefox only displays source code
- LeRoi
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The mime type of the server is probably configured to display text/plain, which IE "overlooks" and displays as html, Firefox won't overlook such mistakes.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I checked on the mime type configuration on the web server and it shows:
type=text/html exts=htm,html
So that doesn't appear to be the source of the problem. I also tried adding a DOCTYPE statement to the page, but that made no difference.
type=text/html exts=htm,html
So that doesn't appear to be the source of the problem. I also tried adding a DOCTYPE statement to the page, but that made no difference.
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> type=text/html exts=htm,html
You'll need to put an extension on your webmail page for that to work. It's still coming up as text/plain (via Tools menu in Firefox, Page Info) for me.
[edit to add:] sorry, didn't read your first post fully, didn't know you didn't have a webmaster/etc. It probably would be better not to try to add an extension to your webmail page since that'll probably break stuff.
[and some more:] The page http://www.mansonconstruction.com/servlet/webacc seems to work for me in Firefox. Maybe you should link to that instead?
Duey
You'll need to put an extension on your webmail page for that to work. It's still coming up as text/plain (via Tools menu in Firefox, Page Info) for me.
[edit to add:] sorry, didn't read your first post fully, didn't know you didn't have a webmaster/etc. It probably would be better not to try to add an extension to your webmail page since that'll probably break stuff.
[and some more:] The page http://www.mansonconstruction.com/servlet/webacc seems to work for me in Firefox. Maybe you should link to that instead?
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Aha! That got me going in the right direction. The default mime type was set to text/plain. Since the webmail page doesn't have an extension, it was using the default mime type. I set the default to text/html and that fixed it. I use "webmail" without an extension to make it easier for my end-users.
Thanks for your help guys!
Thanks for your help guys!