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Web Browsers Displaying Raw Text For ASPX Web Pages

Hi,

I have noticed that all installed web browsers are displaying Active Server Pages (aspx) content as plain text instead of rendering them properly. For example, the page <http://support.toast.net/KB/a78/spf-rules-email-returned-stating-does-not-pass -spf.aspx> is being displayed as raw text instead of being rendered properly.

I loaded up a Windows VM and the page rendered properly. So it appears that my Mac is the issue here. I've tried this page with Firefox 3.6.12, Safari 5.0.2, Camino 2.0.5 and Google Chrome 9.0.572.1, all with the same result.

Does anyone have any suggestions?


Thanks,

Rocky

Mac Pro 2x2 2.66 GHz 11 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Nov 10, 2010 12:30 PM

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Nov 10, 2010 7:48 PM in response to Rocky Pope

I don't know what browser or app you used to download - Safari or Curl produce a webpage, as you'd expect, starting
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

without the headers you included.

It seems not a display issue, but that the site is handing out completely the wrong data to your mac, or it's that way by the time it reaches you.
The headers sent from your mac might be revealing - did you try a new account?.

Hopefully the combo or install will fix it eh - if not, say what you get here or popping the address into web-sniffer.net or similar. It's not clear where the problem begins yet.

Nov 10, 2010 8:04 PM in response to andyBall_uk

Interesting... This is what I suspected initially. I will try a different account.

In the meantime, the result of the nyud.net test showed this message:

SPF Rules - Email returned stating "Does not pass SPF requirements for domain"

Symptoms

A person is unable to send email to a TOAST.net email account. The person typically has the email returned to them with the following error message:

* 550 <ip address> does not pass SPF requirements for domain.

Cause

TOAST.net checks all servers delivering email to TOAST.net for SPF rules. These rules are set up by the sender's ISP and tell TOAST.net how to handle email from them. If there is a rule set up saying "do not accept this email unless it comes from a specific mail server," the message will be returned to the sender. More information on what SPF is and how it works is available HERE.

Solution

Have the sender report the error to their ISP or IT department to adjust their outgoing mail server settings or make adjustments to the SPF rules.

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This IS telling, since I do frequently get these errors when sending email from that ISP's email account. This is made more bizarre because my ISP won't let me use that provider's SMTP server when sending email from their account. They won't let me use anything but their SMTP server.

And it's even more hysterical that the URL I used as an example is the document their tech support told me to view to fix the SPF requirement error!!

Thanks,

Rocky

Nov 10, 2010 9:17 PM in response to Rocky Pope

I just checked GlimmerBlocker, and it was modifying the blocking the incoming content. Based on the history shown in that Safari add-on, the domain Toast.net was appearing as being modified by 15 subscription-based rules. I added a white list rule for domain toast.net as the first rule. The GlimmerBlocker history was now showing these pages as being passed through. But this was not the case. the pages came up OK once I disabled GlimmerBlocker entirely.

I will check for subscription updates in the future, as the latest updates didn't do it despite the white list rule.

Nov 11, 2010 9:29 AM in response to andyBall_uk

They do list a pseudo-paper trail of what they're doing, or more accurately that they're doing something. The problem is that white listing the doamin hasn't worked, unless I have the rule order wrong. I'll check the docs to verify that. In the meantime, it's disabled.

Thanks for your help. You got me on the right track (the track I was initially following).


Regards,

Rocky

Web Browsers Displaying Raw Text For ASPX Web Pages

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