[X4U] OT - Secure Web Page Validation Problem

Milton van der Veen miltonlist at hurontel.on.ca
Sat Dec 17 21:45:43 PST 2005


OK. Maybe it is a server problem. I'll check with them again on  
Monday. I'll also try a few other pages on the server and see what  
happens. Do you know if you have to have the "s" in front of the  
extension name for a secure web page -- or is that an outmoded  
convention?

Milton

On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:28 AM, Nick Scalise wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2005, at 11:21 PM, Milton van der Veen wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Nick. Isn't it always the way when you finally ask a  
>> question that's been bugging you? I just noticed something about  
>> the pages  ... I wonder if it's the extensions that are giving me  
>> the problems.
>>
>> I redid the page as "dot html" instead of "dot shtml" and it seems  
>> to work better. I've had them as "dot shtml" since I set it up a  
>> couple of years ago and I haven't had many complaints till the  
>> past month or so. (Maybe more people are using Firefox now.)
>>
>> There is really no reason to use the "dot shtml" extension is  
>> there? I had always thought that the "s" in front of the file  
>> extensions in a secure site was needed. Am I wrong?
>>
>> ... and I noticed that you used the "dot html" extension when you  
>> uploaded the file too.
>
> Yeah, but your server should still serve it fine. I just renamed my  
> file back to .shtml and it works fine there too.
>
> Glad you got it working ok.
>
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