[X4U] OT - Secure Web Page Validation Problem

[Milton van der Veen]

Thanks, Eddie. I'm in the process of redoing my secure pages. I'm  
ashamed that it took me a year to find out my mistake.

Milton

On Dec 18, 2005, at 2:21 AM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> .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?