[thelist] IIS 5: Is it Bad to Map .css to asp.dll?

deke web at master.gen.in.us
Thu May 17 23:46:04 CDT 2001


On 17 May 2001, at 16:29, James Aylard posted a message which said:

>     All very good points. My primary concern about using an extension other
> than .css was that some browsers would balk at such files (for instance,
> iirc, some Netscape browsers don't like external javascript files without a
> .js extension -- unless the mime type is explicitly set to
> "text/javascript" -- I think).

Which simply means that the webserver is returning an incorrect
Content-type header. Edit the mime.types file if you are a sysop, 
or use an AddType in .htaccess if you are an ordinary user.

deke



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