[X4U] OT - Secure Web Page Validation Problem

[Eddie Hargreaves]

.shtml is for Server Side Includes, and is not security-related. It means
that the page contains links to html fragments that the server includes when
the page is requested by the surfer. The 's' in front of the html notifies
the server to look at the page for includes. But servers have to be
configured to permit server side includes, or SSI. Google SSI for more
information. 


On 12/17/05 9:21 PM, Milton van der Veen <miltonlist at hurontel.on.ca> 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.
> 
> 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
>> 
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