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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:04:35+00:00

I have a simple play app. All of it’s actions render to views. About

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I have a simple play app. All of it’s actions render to views. About 10% of the time, (can’t determine a repro case), the page loads as if it’s viewing source. All the HTML shows up in the client browser, but just as text, it doesn’t get rendered as a webpage.

What would cause Play to just dump all the response text to the browser in a manner that prevents the browser from recognizing it as HTML and rendering it?

This has got me stumped, and it’s a real pain for customers. Just hitting reload on their browser fixes it, but still, they don’t know to do that.

Thanks in advance
Josh

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  1. Editorial Team

    Did some sleuthing, and it turns out the page whose html is getting returned is actually the 404 error page. I looked at the 404 page and realized it’s content type is being set dynamically, (which is not the case with all my other screens). So I changed it from ${_response_encoding} to just be hardcoded to UTF-8 like all my other html templates. Soooo, I’m praying that explains why when the 404 page was sent to clients their browser didn’t know what content type it was.

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