I have a Django application
running on a Ubuntu
, Apache server
that works perfectly under Chrome
and Firefox
, however when I access it via Internet Explorer 11
, it will not load. Instead of rendering the HTML in the browser window, I receive the
Do you want to open or save XXXXXX from XXXXXX message.
Tried debugging the site in IE, and the console shows a warming:
HTML1527: DOCTYPE expected. Consider adding a valid HTML5 doctype: ""
however this is the first line of the HTML.
In Chrome, this error does not appear but I get a warning about the page including a password field (have not flipped to https yet as I am still in development).
The only other thing I can find (in debug) is that the "Content Type" shows up blank, but other sites I review have entries (text/html, etc.) but I don't see how to populate this information.
Please advise how I can troubleshoot this further to find the cause of the page not loading.
Here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>ops</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/content/bootstrap.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/content/site.css" />
<script src="/static/scripts/modernizr-2.6.2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top opsBlack">
<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<img src="/static/images/test-N.png" width ="40" align="left"/>
<a href="/" class="navbar-brand">ops</a>
</div>
<div class="navbar-collapse collapse opsBlack">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li><a href=#>Test</a></li>
<li><a href=#>Test</a></li>
<li><a href=#>Test</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="bluetext">Mar 28, 2017</a></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li><a href="../registration/login.html">Log in</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<h2></h2>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8">
<section id="loginForm">
<form action="/accounts/login/" method="post" class="form-horizontal">
<input type='hidden' name='csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='deleted' />
<h4>Use your Account to log in.</h4>
<hr />
<div class="form-group">
<label for="id_username" class="col-md-2 control-label">User name</label>
<div class="col-md-10">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Username" required=Yes name="username" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="id_password" class="col-md-2 control-label">Password</label>
<div class="col-md-10">
<input type="password" class="form-control" placeholder="Password" required=Yes name="password"/>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-offset-2 col-md-10">
<input type="hidden" name="next" value="/" />
<input type="submit" value="Log in" class="btn btn-default" />
</div>
</div>
</form>
</section>
</div>
</div>
<hr/>
<footer>
<p>© - ops</p>
</footer>
<script src="/static/scripts/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script src="/static/scripts/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script src="/static/scripts/respond.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Found the problem.
In my initial 'home' view, I redirected the user to the login page incorrectly.
Originally, I had:
Which was incorrect, and should have been:
This was creating an issue with the HTTP Headers, and confusing IE 11.