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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 24, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-wrong-in-ie-html-requests-seen-as-text-javascript/143958 "2008-07-24T06:38:08Z")\
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**Author:**  [@jdevine](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jdevine)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-wrong-in-ie-html-requests-seen-as-text-javascript/143958/1 "2008-07-24T06:38:08Z")
Anyone come across this problem?
It may be something I’m doing somewhere, but my page renders fine in
Firefox, and returns a syntax error in Internet explorer.
Very strange, I thought, then I traced it to the fact that the IE
request is responding to format.js while the firefox request is
responding to format.html:
`
def index_response
respond_to do |format|
format.js {
puts("was js")
if (params[:search] && params[:search][:current])
puts("search current")
render :template=>"models/association_page.rjs"
else
puts("rendering div partial")
render :partial=>'div',:collection=>@objects,
:locals=>{:pa=>@pa,
:parent_object=>@parent_object,
:editable=>params[:editable]
}
end
}
format.html {
puts("was html")
if @exact_objects.size == 1 && @objects.empty?
@object = @exact_objects.to_a.first
redirect_to :action=>'show', :id=>@object.id
elsif @exact_objects.empty? && @objects.empty? && logged_in?
redirect_to({:action=>“new”}.merge(search_params_into_params))
end
}
end
`
for the IE request, it logs:
“was js”
“rendering div partial”.
while the firefox request logs
“was html”
Any ideas what could cause this?
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**Author:**  [@jdevine](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jdevine)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-wrong-in-ie-html-requests-seen-as-text-javascript/143958/2 "2008-07-24T06:45:09Z")
Never mind – I didn’t realize a page could respond to different mime
types, and the Responder would respond to the first one that works, so
I switched the order and that works.