IE Rending issue

We set a URL to view log file (.txt) file for our client. Some of our log file gave error with IE but works fine with chrome and firefox. here is what we wrote in text file

2010-10-15 08:34:18,867 [1] DEBUG - 

UserHostAddress 198.96.178.33 
UserHostName 198.96.178.33 
UserAgent Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0.1
10/15/2010 8:34:18 AM 
Request <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><SearchDetailsRequest><Credentials><UserId>factiva</UserId><Password>facpassword123</Password></Credentials><SearchTerms><RequestID value="AML1010150002920"><Record type="2" SearchID="1"><ExactMatch>0</ExactMatch><Name>IBM</Name><FirstName></FirstName><MiddleName></MiddleName><LastName></LastName><CountryCodes></Countr开发者_如何学JAVAyCodes></Record><Record type="2" SearchID="2"><ExactMatch>0</ExactMatch><Name>CFX Holdings</Name><FirstName></FirstName><MiddleName></MiddleName><LastName></LastName><CountryCodes></CountryCodes></Record><PageNo>1</PageNo><MaxResultstoReturn>100</MaxResultstoReturn><SortResultBy>Name</SortResultBy></RequestID><DateTime>10/15/2010 08:34:07</DateTime></SearchTerms></SearchDetailsRequest></soap:Body></soap:Envelope> 

Any idea?

Check the Content-Type header being sent (Fiddler may be useful). We've had issues with naming our log files ".log" and had to set IIS to serve them as text/plain for IE to display them correctly.

If you're serving them up through a script, you should be able to set the Content Type in the script.

When I open a .txt file with the above contents in IE, it worked fine, so it might be something specific to your PC rather than the server. There's some info here on MIME Type detection in IE - one of the things it does is reads content, so it might be seeing the XML and assuming the whole doc is supposed to be XML.