IE8 thinks SHTML is "text.html"

[Christos Jonathan Hayward <christos.jonathan.hayward@xxxxxxxxx>]

I posted this originally at http://serverfault.com/questions/354313/how-can-i-get-apache2-to-serve-up-shtml-files-as-content-type-text-html-and-n and thought maybe I'd ask here:

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I'm working on a website, implemented as shtml, and when I try to load the home page (http://simplyclassicremodeling.com) from IE8, it says it can't open the file because it transferred as Content-Type "text.html". The page loads fine from Chrome, and  in Firefox.

httpd.conf has:

Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI 
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

and further down:

AddType text/html .shtml 
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/_javascript_ application/_javascript_

Are the "AddType" and "AddOutputFilter" transposed? Based on this information, would you know why IE8 would think .shtml files are being sent as Content-Type: "text.html"? Is there a way to globally ask Apache, "If you're going to transfer as 'text.html', use 'text/html' instead?

Thanks,

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