Re: Re: html not rendered in some browsers - problem solved

["Mark A. Craig" <mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now just to reinforce the moral of this story in my own mind, the reason for 
this was because of IE's legendary habit of ignoring the MIME types of content 
and looking at the file extensions to decide what to do with it?

Mark

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject:  Re: html not rendered in some browsers - problem solved
From: Rick Hobson <r.j.hobson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, November 02, 2007 06:00:29 AM

> Hi,
>
> Problem solved
>
> /etc/mime.types had become corrupted and was of zero length. I have 
> replaced it with a copy from another machine running the same O/S, 
> restarted the browser and all seems well.
>
> Apologies for creating unnecessary noise on the list.
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Rick Hobson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been running Apache 2.2 on SuSe 10.2 for several months without 
> > any problems.
> >
> > Early yesterday evening all contact with the server was lost. This 
> > seems to have been a problem of some sort with networking rather than 
> > a problem with Apache2. The server is also running a Samba service and 
> > this couldn't be contacted either, nor could the machine be pinged.
> >
> > The machine was rebooted (cleanly using the appropriate command) and 
> > there were no obvious errors as it started up. The Samba service was 
> > restored and seems to be working normally. Apache2 restarted without 
> > any errors. Network connections were restored and seem to be working 
> > normally.
> >
> > However, none of the pages are now rendered in Firefox or Konqueror, 
> > they simply display the html, whereas IE6 renders the pages normally!!

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