On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:04:47 -0400, Knutson, Sam wrote: >Bingo! We do not have access to the server configuration files. >Home page content has not changed since July. >No JavaScript on the page. >I will look into it but no problems reported. >No JavaScript anywhere in the site. >The only scripting we do is server side using Perl, PHP, and SSI. >All HTML is presented as static and should be compatible with any >browser. >We run on a commercial hosting company virtual server setup. > That appears to be HIS.COM.
>Check to make sure you are here > >http://www.cbttape.org > >and > >http://www.cbttape.org/index.html > >or > >http://www.cbttape.org/index.htm > >will be the result displayed either of which works with one cosmetic >difference. > I see two. The second being innovationdp.fdr.com vs. ssi_rand_image.pl. >Philosophy is keep it simple and browser agnostic. I won't put anything >on the domain that requires code to run in your browser as an Bravo; bravo! >application on purpose. Some pages are created dynamically by simple >scripts so that simple text files are routinely updated instead of HTML >pages but that is done on the server side. > The easiest conjecture, only slightly convoluted is that HIS.COM's server was formerly configured to follow the customary practice of displaying "index.html" in any directory that contained one. Then, inexplicably (must have been an Important Cu$tomer), they chose to change the configuration to select a different index page, say "startup.html" for example. Then, for compatibility, in each customer directory containing "index.html", but not "startup.html" they added a boilerplate "startup.html" page, but with a syntax error in the "noscript" branch: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4" url="index.html"> should be: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4 url=index.html"> HTTPD will never show you the name of that page, but turning off JavaScript and viewing Page Source will show you its content, or you might find it with an FTP connection and a "DIR" command. Complain to HIS.COM, at least about the syntax error, and suggest that as a courtesy to the JavaScript challenged they add: <A HREF="index.html">Click here to continue</A> to the noscript branch. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
