Server configuration error for www.cag.gov.in - was Re: seeing asp files in firefox

[Tim Frost]

It is definitely a server configuration error.  When I telnet to port 80
on www.cag.gov.in, and get the page, it returns a content-type of
text/plain, rather than text/html (see the log at the end of this
email).   Firefox (and other non-M$ browsers) displays text/plain as is,
rather than processing the HTML tags.  Hopefully, the web master for
www.cag.gov.in can fix the server configuration.

Incidentally, as you can see from the HTTP headers returned, the server
is APACHE on Unix, and NOT M$, so I suspect that the .asp suffix on the
page should in fact be .html, unless it is supposed to be a PHP page.


Tim

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 11:30 +1100, Colin Bell wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:59:36PM -0500, Kush Singh wrote:
> > At present i am using firefox 1.0.7 in breezy and when i go to the link 
> > containing an asp file (such as http://www.cag.gov.in/home_page.asp) i 
> > can only see the source text of the asp file. ie it does not render 
> > automatically in the browser till i save the file as with the extension 
> > html or htm.
> 
> I get the same in Firefox on Windows for this page, but it works with
> other ASP pages (e.g. http://www.aspfaq.com/news.asp). In Internet
> Explorer I get a 'cannot find server' error. I'd put this down as a
> problem with the server, nothing wrong with your version of Firefox.
> 


$ telnet www.cag.gov.in 80
Trying 164.100.41.226...
Connected to www.cag.gov.in.
Escape character is '^]'.
get /home_page.asp HTTP/1.1
host: www.cag.gov.in

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 10140
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:00:14 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Server: Apache/2.0.42 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 mod_jk/1.2.0
Last-Modified: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:58:29 GMT
ETag: "db927-279c-5dd18f40"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=57