[X4U] OT - Secure Web Page Validation Problem

[Milton van der Veen]

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.

Milton

On Dec 17, 2005, at 11:48 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Milton van der Veen wrote:
>
>> I look after a web site for Sleeping Children Around the World. We  
>> use PayPal for credit card donations and had to set up a sequence  
>> of secure pages on our web site to handle that. We use our ISPs  
>> secure server to save money.
>>
>> But I keep getting people using Firefox browser who tell me  
>> they're getting the HTML code in their browser instead of the  
>> rendered page.
>> <https://host.zerowebhosting.com/scaw/secure/index.shtml>
>>
>
> I went to the page in Firefox and got code. So I saved the file to  
> my harddrive and opened it in Firefox and it looked mostly as  
> expected (probably missing the style sheet).
>
> That would tell me that something is amiss on the server.
>
> If they say the page is coded correctly, ask them why code is being  
> displayed from the server. Correct code looks proper only if it is  
> served correctly.
>
> I placed the file on my cox space (hope that's OK, I will delete it  
> right away) and it works fine there...
>
> http://members.cox.net/nickscalise/scaw.html
>