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Posted by Brian on November 19, 2004, 8:47 pm
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Chris Simon wrote:
> Dave Patton wrote:
>
>> If I look at the HTTP headers, via the LiveHTTPHeaders Firefox
>> extension, or via: http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html I don't
>> see the 300 response from your server, so I'd guess it's dependant
>> on the HTTP headers sent by the W3C validator.
>
>
> Well, I've been playing around in the last hour or so with my web
> hosting control panel, and it has a setting for indexes, i.e.
> whether the server should return a list of files in a directory if
> there is no index file. I turned them off, but found that broke the
> site for some reason. I turned them back on again, and now I find
> that it all works. I'm completely baffled. Perhaps it's now working,
> so in fact it's not sending a 300 any more so you're not seeing that
> now.
It appears that there something set on your server that you don't need
and that's causing problems in some cases. I should be able to tell you
to go to tech support at your hosting company, but chances are the
people working there know as much as you do. What's worse, they
generally act like they know quite a lot. Ignorant and cocky is a
dangerous combination.
> As far as I can see, the server shouldn't have returned a 300 anyway
> as I was sending it the *exact* filename, not a partial name that
> might match several files.
This has been coming up an awful lot recently in the ciwa* groups. NB:
There is no filename on the client end. There is only a url that was
requested, and a response from the server, typically a document, but in
this case an error message.
> If the validator sends an accept type of text/html, the server may
> try to find files that match
Right. File names and extensions do matter on the server, as they are
often used to determine the response. As I said, you should be able to
go to support, but that is likely pointless. The alternative is to learn
about http and server stuff on your own, in other words, learn to do the
job of tech support yourself.
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Brian (remove "invalid" to email me)
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