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Reputation: 3

django development server mimetype issue - not handling css

Using python 3.3.5 and django 1.6.4 here.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css">

On the django development server (manage.py runserver) the above css file is getting served as text/plain and the styles are not loading. Actually, all of my js files are getting served as text/plain as well, but it doesn't seem to matter for them. text/plain was verified using the debugging tools in Chrome, but it's definitely not browser-specific as the styles are not loading in ff either.

I know the css is being loaded, since I get 200/304 status messages in the server console, so it's not a static file path type issue.

Initially when I ran mimetypes.guess_type('test.css') in the python console it gave me 'text/plain' as output. I then ran mimetypes.add_type('text/css', '.css') and now mimetypes.guess_type('test.css') returns 'text/css'. The server, however, still serves the files as text/plain.

Anyone have any experience with this issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 730

Answers (1)

vladkens
vladkens

Reputation: 353

Django server uses mimetypes standard Python library to do that. It relates .css extension to text/css, but first it takes a look in system-wide storage of such relations.

  • On Windows this is HKCR\.css\Content Type registry key.
  • On Linux it's either /etc/mime.types or ~/.mime.types.

Some bad-behaved software have added relation of .css to text/plain there.

Upvotes: 5

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