Fresh install V1.7 not compatible with IE 8 - javascript error

[thrutch]

I have done a number of fresh installs of V1.7 on different servers. All work with Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. IE 8(under win xp)  allows login but stalls while loading the resources with the error dialog indicating error c00ce56e.
line 10 char 12246 file ext-base.js.

This appears to relate to an incompatibility in the character set or content type.

Anyone else suffer this indignity...and solve it. BTW the demo on the Feng site works with the IE8  browsers that fail on my installation. NOTE: many workstations at different locations all fail the same way.

[cabeza]

Please share your server specs

[thrutch]

Two physical servers both are:
O/S - Gentoo Linux
HTTP - NGINX
Server API   CGI/FastCGI
PHP Version 5.2.13-pl0-gentoo
MySql - 5.0.90

NOTE: FO 1.7-rc2 installed on my MAC OS-X does work under IE8 ?

[cabeza]

We only test in Apache, so it might be a http server issue.

[cabeza]

PS. The file with the error is an Ext-Js library file.

[thrutch]

Well not exactly Cabeza. It is true that there appears an incompatibility between IE7/8 ext, FO and NGINX.

There are many instances of this error being reported on the net. The consensus appears to be the following:

Variously reported under IE7 and 8: as errors in content type and/or characterset.

example fix:
php -> header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1");
html -> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

As you can see the fixes do not alter the ext code base. They alter the HTTP coding.

The problem, in this case, appears to be NGINX...that is the common factor. Does anyone else have an NGINX implementation?