Question

I have a problem with a website, where sometimes only the HTML text is displayed in the browser window, instead of the rendered HTML page. This happens sometimes in all browsers.
Example URL:
http://www.starkl.at/view/p-1258/Newsletter—Gartentipp/

The HTTP request headers from IE9 are (Cookies are not shown):

GET http://www.starkl.at/view/p-1258/Newsletter---Gartentipp/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*
Referer: http://www.starkl.at/view/p-1931/Service/
Accept-Language: de-AT
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive
DNT: 1
Host: www.starkl.at
Pragma: no-cache

The HTTP response headers are:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:43:49 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 21160
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive

Also the content length (in bytes) seems to match.
It’s a Java 6/7 application running on a Tomcat 6/7, with an additional httpd 2.2.x in front.

Any idea what the problem could be????

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If the browser writes the code and not renders it is because it’s being told to do so, probably your app is returning html encoded in a way that browser thinks it’s plain text.