general/4704: Netscape loading web pages as text/plain instead of html

[Greg Payne <gp...@galena-park.isd.tenet.edu>]

>Number:         4704
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       Netscape loading web pages as text/plain instead of html
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul  6 09:50:01 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     gpayne@galena-park.isd.tenet.edu
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.6
>Environment:
RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36.  Apache 1.3.6, w/o patches
>Description:
Some pages appear as html source code instead of web pages.  This problem occurs predominantly in Netscape -various versions-, but I have seen it happen in Internet Explorer as well (different versions).
>How-To-Repeat:
Seems to only occur in Netscape when loading pages ending in .htm as opposed to .html.  
>Fix:
Edit mime.types in the configuration directory.  Change the line that says:
text/html     html htm
---- to -----
text/html     htm html

This seems to fix the problem.
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