This JSP webpage http://www.ricksclimb.org/PF/1/1/index.jsp works in IE but not in Firefox for example, just shows the code, any ideas.

Drew

Your HTML tag might need changing to...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Your HTML tag might need changing to...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

 

no didn't work

Its the same for Safari on a Mac too

In your response headers, the mimetype is "text/plain" where it should be html or xml. IE guesses mimetype differently to other browsers. If you fix whichever application server (Tomcat, Apache, IIS, etc) is setting that wrongly, you'll probably have a solution.

You are using wrong file extension... That's why

Not necessarily... JSP means Java Server Page - and is a perfectly legitimate extension.

An amatuer input, should this not be your header, for the code to be read as html?

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

In your response headers, the mimetype is "text/plain" where it should be html or xml. IE guesses mimetype differently to other browsers. If you fix whichever application server (Tomcat, Apache, IIS, etc) is setting that wrongly, you'll probably have a solution.

What he said. His doctype is correct for transitional and that wouldn't effect the page like that. The header that is sent to the browser with the page isn't set correctly meaning that the browser is displaying it as a plain text file as it should do (of course IE doesn't comply with such rules).

 

Headers analysis for your page

 

Header analysis for a functioning website

o.k. changed to my server on: http://designer-drew.com/PF/1/2/index.jsp , works now but how do I hide the code on firefox top right??

Cheers Drew

That's really bizarre. If you just take Firefox it looks like the page isn't going through the necessary preprocessor (ISAPI filter or whatever) to be processed as a JSP.

 

However it's fine in IE, so now I'm afraid I'm stumped.

 

It's almost certainly going to be something in your server config (I still don't know if you're using JBoss, Tomcat, or some other Java application server) - either the application server or the web server (IIS / Apache). So that's probably the place to start looking but I don't think I can help further...