[WICKET-2718] RedirectPage does not work in IE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.7, 1.5-M1
• Component/s: wicket
• Environment: IE7 or IE8 (probably earlier IE versions as well)
• Assignee: Igor Vaynberg
• Reporter: Steve Lowery
• Created: 04/Feb/10 18:08
• Updated: 05/Feb/10 02:38
• Resolved: 05/Feb/10 02:38

Description

The org.apache.wicket.markup.html.pages.RedirectPage rendered in IE results in an "The XML page cannot be displayed" error. When viewing the error in the IE console, you see:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Timestamp: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:00:25 UTC

Message: The server did not understand the request, or the request was invalid.

Line: 0
Char: 0
Code: 0
URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd

RedirectPage.java looks identical, but the following line has been added in 1.4.6 (not present in 1.4.5 and earlier) to the RedirectPage.html and seems the likely culprit:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>