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Pulling in Dynamiclly Generated (not static file) CSS in FF?

Is there a way to pull in a CSS stylesheet in FireFox 2 or 3 that is not a static file?

Below is the code we use to pull out the stylesheet dynamically generated by the CGI script.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/cgi-bin/Xebra?ShowIt&s=LH4X6I2l4fSYwf4pky4k&shw=795430-0&path=customer/DEMO/demo1.css" type="text/css">

/cgi-bin/Xebra?ShowIt&s=LH4X6I2l4fSYwf4pky4k&shw=795430-0&path=customer/DEMO/demo1.css

Please note that the URL above that pulls in CSS does not end with .css, not parameters.

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Is the content type from the server correct for the file being served?



Content-type: text/css
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why doesn't it work? Double check that the response header for the cgi script has



Content-Type: text/css
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The extension doesn't matter, but you must make sure the content type is "text / css" .

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I've done the same thing in the past - the former employer's site uses a link tag similar to yours and works great in FF2 at least (I just tested it, although I tested it in FF when we added this link). If it doesn't work, I would suspect something is in the generated CSS file and not the import page. It looks like the Content-Type consensus from the server might be wrong.

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Server processes (e.g. CGI) are run first, right? It seems to me that the link tag will only pull in an already existing file.

So, I would put the server tag (my lang ASP / ASP.Net, but you could use PHP or anything, really) in the href.

Same:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css href="<% =getStylesheetPath() %>" media="all">

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