A site I am working on that is built using PHP is sometimes showing a completely blank page. There are no error messages on the client or on the server. The same page may display sometimes but not others. All pages are working fine in IE7, Firefox 3, Safari and Opera. All pages are XHTML with this meta element:
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8' /> It appears that I have fixed the problem by adding this PHP code:
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); I have read that this problem may be caused by XHTML, encoding, gzip compression, or caching, but nobody has been able to backup these guesses.
As the problem was intermittent I am not confident that my solution has actually solved the problem.
My question is, are there reproducible ways of having IE6 show a blank page when other browsers display content? If so, what causes it and what solves it?
This is a content-type problem from IE. It does not know how to handle application/xhtml+xml.
Although you write xhtml+xml, IE only knows text+html. It will be the future before all agents know xhtml+xml
change your meta tag with content type to content=’text/html;