Weird gibberish when loading a gif in Firefox, but it's fine in IE...

Joshua Slive · *nix forums Guru Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 1647

On 7/19/06, Edric <ehankamo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Edric · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

Ok i got the httpd.conf and mime.types file from my systems person and the conf file seems correct...

here's a snip of httpd.conf:

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
TypesConfig /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types
</IfModule>

and in mime.types:

image/gif gif

Shouldn't this be all there is to making the server send the correct content-type for the image? if so, then the only other explanation now would be whether or not mod_mime.c is loaded, correct? (sorry i would test this right now but this is production stuff)

thanks thanks thanks...

Joshua Slive <joshua@slive.ca> wrote: On 7/19/06, Edric wrote:

Joshua Slive · *nix forums Guru Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 1647

On 7/19/06, Edric <ehankamo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Edric · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

Hi,

I did look at that earlier and I saw that the TypesConfig directive points to a mime.types file with the following entry:
image/gif gif

one little quirk i just realized is that the web app/server I'm debugging isn't the one that hosts the dynamically generated gif file... i have no control over that server and my app merely accesses the link. would that be the cause of the problem?

Thanks again.

Joshua Slive <joshua@slive.ca> wrote: On 7/19/06, Edric wrote:

Joshua Slive · *nix forums Guru Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 1647

On 7/19/06, Edric <ehankamo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Edric · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

Hi,

There's no content-type being set in the header... this is all i have in the head:

<head>
<link href="/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
thanks for your help

David Salisbury <salisbury@globe.gov> wrote: Well I think that last part means your mime stuff ( the types file ) is then completely ignored
by apache.

I'd guess IE reads the file as it's coming in, and figures out it's content type.

Is your script sending a Content-type: in the header? I'm betting it's being defaulted
to text/plain by either Apache or Firefox.

-ds

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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Weird gibberish when loading a gif in Firefox, but it's fine in IE...

David Salisbury · *nix forums beginner Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 35

Well I think that last part means your mime stuff ( the types file ) is then completely ignored
by apache.

I'd guess IE reads the file as it's coming in, and figures out it's content type.

Is your script sending a Content-type: in the header? I'm betting it's being defaulted
to text/plain by either Apache or Firefox.

-ds

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edric" <ehankamo@yahoo.com>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Weird gibberish when loading a gif in Firefox, but it's fine in IE...

Edric · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

also the link returns a dynamically generated gif file so there's no gif extension

Edric <ehankamo@yahoo.com> wrote: he i'm trying to load this gif that has its src set to our apache server

anyhow when i load in firefox, i get strange binary data that is shown as text, while in ie it shows the image perfectly fine.

is this an apache configuration problem or is it something else? i looked at the mime magic file that my httpd.conf file is pointing to and it has this line:

# GIF
0 string GIF image/gif

i'm not very familiar with MIME stuff... so any simple or trivial (to you) suggestion would be great... thanks.

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Edric · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

and also here's an example of the gibberish i see:

GIF89a*

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Edric · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

he i'm trying to load this gif that has its src set to our apache server

anyhow when i load in firefox, i get strange binary data that is shown as text, while in ie it shows the image perfectly fine.

is this an apache configuration problem or is it something else? i looked at the mime magic file that my httpd.conf file is pointing to and it has this line:

# GIF
0 string GIF image/gif

i'm not very familiar with MIME stuff... so any simple or trivial (to you) suggestion would be great... thanks.

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