Firefox failure to render a page
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Jun 23 20:36:27 UTC 2006
Frank Cox wrote:
> A large store chain has a website that all of their suppliers have to log into
> every time they send in an invoice. I know -- seems weird to me too but I
> guess when you're big you get to set the rules.
>
> Anyway, this website is a secure (https:) site that, when you log into it using
> IE on Windows, immediately asks you for your username and password.
>
> But I will be damned if I can get it to work at all under Linux.
>
> Instead of the username/password prompt that comes up under IE, I get this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="882T.xsl"?>
> <Interchange Region="Atlantic">
> <Msg_882_GROUP_1>
> <G47>
> <G47_01_373></G47_01_373>
> <G47_01_613></G47_01_613>
> </G47>
>
> ... this series of numbers continues on for several screen lengths, then ends
> with
>
> </Msg_882_GROUP_1> </Interchange>
>
>
> And that's it. Game over.
>
> I have tried this with Firefox and Opera, and even got desperate and installed
> IE under Wine using the script here: http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html
>
> Every time I get the same thing.
>
> Any idea what's going on here, and how I can get Firefox or something to render
> this page? It is obviously doing something that IE recognizes but Firefox
> doesn't understand.
>
>
>
Have you contacted their Web admin or customer support staff? Supply
them with links to http://www.w3.org/.
I think there may be a script that is being run that creates the WWW
page. I would try IE without Java or scripting enabled and see what
happens.
Now you said you used IE under wine. Did that work?
--
Robin Laing
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