header(“Content-type: text/css”); is working in Firefox and Chrome, but in Internet Explorer 9 it shows up as 'text/html'

Question

header(\"Content-type: text/css\"); works in Firefox, Chrome and other, but not in Internet Explorer 9. I am not sure what\'s up.

In Chrome an

Answer 1

Internet Explorer has a history of trusting the file extension over the MIME type reported by the browser. If you have mod_rewrite available, have your HTML look for a .css file and then create a mod_rewrite rule that pipes that URL to your script.