Firefox failure to render a page

[Robin Laing]

Frank Cox wrote:
> A large store chain has a website that all of their suppliers have to log into
> every time they send in an invoice.  I know -- seems weird to me too but I
> guess when you're big you get to set the rules.
> 
> Anyway, this website is a secure (https:) site that, when you log into it using
> IE on Windows, immediately asks you for your username and password.
> 
> But I will be damned if I can get it to work at all under Linux.
> 
> Instead of the username/password prompt that comes up under IE, I get this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="882T.xsl"?>
> <Interchange  Region="Atlantic">
> 	<Msg_882_GROUP_1>
> 		<G47>
> 			<G47_01_373></G47_01_373>
> 			<G47_01_613></G47_01_613>
> 		</G47>
> 
> ... this series of numbers continues on for several screen lengths, then ends
> with
> 
>  </Msg_882_GROUP_1> </Interchange>
> 
> 
> And that's it.  Game over.
> 
> I have tried this with Firefox and Opera, and even got desperate and installed
> IE under Wine using the script here: http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html
> 
> Every time I get the same thing.
> 
> Any idea what's going on here, and how I can get Firefox or something to render
> this page?  It is obviously doing something that IE recognizes but Firefox
> doesn't understand.
> 
> 
> 

Have you contacted their Web admin or customer support staff?  Supply 
them with links to http://www.w3.org/.

I think there may be a script that is being run that creates the WWW 
page.  I would try IE without Java or scripting enabled and see what 
happens.

Now you said you used IE under wine.  Did that work?

-- 
Robin Laing