[H-GEN] Mozilla and PHP

[Ben Fowler]

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Sandra Milne wrote:
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> Robert Stanford wrote:
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>> While setting up the web server did you access the php pages before php
>> was enabled. If so mozilla might still be using its cached versions.
> 
> No I didn't.... however I did just clear my Mozilla cache, and suddenly 
> for no reason I can see the page started working.
> Thanks for the suggestions Robert and Michael.

A useful thing to know of is the Page Information dialog (control-i) in 
Mozilla.  Mozilla is more standards-compliant when handling document 
MIME types, which sometimes causes problems with web applications which 
have only been tested with IE.  Furthermore, it handles certain things 
differently between 'Quirks Mode' and 'Standards Compliance Mode', which 
is selected depending on the doctype set in returned documents.  This 
can cause exotic problems, like stylesheets that refuse to be applied 
when your pages are DOCTYPE'd, etc.

FWIW, a simple and virtually foolproof way of seeing what your server is 
trying to send the client is to simply telnet to port 80 on the server 
and issue the appropriate GET command.

I hope this helps in the future.

-regards,

Ben.


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