HTML generation w/out browser Interpretation

Rails
1

I just recently moved my web application to production mode and
published it online. While everything functioned ok locally, I have a
very bizarre error now affecting my application. One of my
controllers, Work, is not behaving properly. Whenever I call the
action new, create, edit, or update I get all of the HTML generated to
my browser (this happens in Firefox, Camino, and Safari) but the
browser doesn’t interpret it. In Internet Explorer, however, the HTML
is interpreted and I see the correct page. An example of what my
production.log entries look like:

Processing WorkController#new (for 70.35.119.123 at 2006-07-21 21:21:05)
[GET]
Session ID: 8bbed2b4b35205cbf3f4cb7d1a2e11e6
Parameters: {“action”=>“new”, “controller”=>“work”}
Rendering within layouts/application
Rendering work/new
Completed in 0.02647 (37 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.02156 (81%) | DB:
0.00415 (15%) | 200 OK [http://anngcoleman.com/work/new]

So it looks like the 200 OK message should make the browser interpret
the page. I am running it off of a shared hosting company (Dreamhost
to be specific) which I understand throws a lot of uncertainty in the
situation, but I would really appreciate any advice. Like I said, the
HTML is generated but something isn’t coming through all the way. I’m
completely stumped on this one.

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http://anngcoleman.com/work/new

Is that the url that doesn’t work? Works fine for me.

If not, sounds like a bad mime type being sent. IE will try to guess
on things it’s not sure about, while other browsers are usually more
strict. Try telneting to the port and do a GET /work/new HTTP/1.0 to
see what the server is sending.

Chris

3

You’re serving the page with the MIME type text/plain instead of text/
html. You can see this in Firefox by right-clicking on the page and
choosing View Page Info.

It’s unlikely to be a Dreamhost issue if the rest of your site is
working right. Check your work controller and view to see what’s
different from the rest of your site.

        - dan

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Dan K. mailto:[email protected]
http://www.dankohn.com/ tel:+1-415-233-1000

4

Please post your work/new method, view, and layout.

        - dan

–
Dan K. mailto:[email protected]
http://www.dankohn.com/ tel:+1-415-233-1000

5

I figured it out.

For some reason in my form the check_box function was creating the
error. Even when I did a simple <%= check_box “work”, “display” %> the
page would lose it’s conent-type. I worked around it by writing out
the tags myself. Glad that’s over with!

6

I’ve taken away the administration part so now the new action is
revealed to the public. This might be helpful. when i do curl -I
http://anngcoleman.com/work/new I get this:

curl -I http://anngcoleman.com/work/new
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:38:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) PHP/4.4.2 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 DAV/2 SVN/1.1.4
#<Work: 0x40aa7184>Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: _session_id=497686cbf964a917030421f6d055e69a; path=/
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/plain

I guess the #<Work: 0x40aa7184>Content-Type: text/html is blocking out
the content type. Can anyone tell me why #<Work: 0x40aa7184> is there
or give me some idea of how to get rid of it?