SillyDog701

[Stu]

I know that I have raised this before but ...

I have two sites set up using XML and XSL to give client side
transformation. These are identical sites running on different servers
and are purely experimantal sites just for testing XML and XSL.
The sites validate at W3C.

One site at http://stuart.port5.com works with both IE6 and Netscape 7 (running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix))
The other at http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk only works with IE6 (running Zeus 4.0)

Both sites have the same MIME type set up using .htaccess

Does anyone have any ideas why Netscape would only work on one site?
Is it possible that the server is the problem?

Thanks

Stu.

Previous thread link: Netscape 7 and client side xml / xsl
[Edit: added previous thread link]

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[Shark Daddy]

Forgive me for my subpar knowledge, but what is Zeus? I do indeed think it's the server. Looking at that page with Mozilla, I am getting an unknown MIME type reading. .htaccess is only supposed to work on some Unix servers, so you might want to look into what the server can do.

Very nice job with the one that is working though!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021108

[Stu]

The non-working site is set up on Telewest - Blueyonder servers which, according to the information I can find uses 'Zeus'.
This is an alternative to 'Apache' which is supposed to be more secure.
Telewest are paranoid about server security.

It should recognise the .htaccess file MIME types according to the help files on their site.

Does Mozilla give anymore information as to which MIME type is causing the error?

This XML/XSL territory is all new to me that's why I am trying it out. It does look promising and once you get to grips with XSL (including CSS) it is fairly easy to implement.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[Stu]

Ok looks like it is sorted.

I always thought that MIME types were set up as

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AddType text/xml .xsl

This has always worked with Apache .

but it looks like the dot is not required before the extension on blueyonder

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AddType text/xml xsl

The site works with this change.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

[Stu]

If you are interested..... Zeus is in competition with Apache etc
and claims to be about 45% faster, more secure.

See http://www.zeus.com

BTW phpBB web site runs on Zeus (or so they claim).

Have now downloaded Mozilla 1.1 and it really is excellent
Might even use it in preference to IE6.

Stu

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826