Hi Grant:

These commands are they browser based
or command line based ?

Cheers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Parnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, 14 September 2003 09:48
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Weird HTML Omitting code via Browser !!
> 
> 
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Hi Sluggers:
> > 
> > Issue:
> > For some reason when I load an html file in a browser some 
> of the data 
> > is not displayed. e.g I have an image <img> tag code in there. But 
> > when I do view source via browser, I do not see the image <img> tag 
> > for the image I wanted to see. However when I open the html 
> file via 
> > the command line, I see that the <img> tag for that 
> particular image 
> > is there.
> > 
> > Has anyone experienced this ? Is this the web server server 
> doing this 
> > ?
> > 
> 
> It's possible the web server might be doing this if the page 
> contains for 
> example php code that includes conditional logic (ie 
> if/then/else ) or 
> possibly style sheets (.css) or a multitude of other things 
> you'd have to 
> intentionally use. More likely it's a caching issue.
> 
> Plenty of times I have found that when doing web development it's 
> important to eliminate proxy/caches from the equation, this 
> includes the 
> local browser cache. Frequently I've been caught out thinking my 
> perl/php/html code was the problem when it was just an old 
> version being 
> cached, mind you only for a few minutes.
> 
> Here's a few steps you can do to try isolating the problem:-
> * Load up a different GUI browser on the same machine that 
> hasn't seen the 
> page before. 
> * try lynx -source <url> |less
> * try export http_proxy="http://proxy-address:port/";; lynx 
> -source <url> 
> |less
> * compare above lynx operations between workstation & web 
> server itself. 
> IE login to the web server & run lynx.
> 
> ---<GRiP>---
> 


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