Re: mozilla vs shtml

From: Dave Millen (postmaster_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 10/09/03 

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:41:05 +0100

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:21:36 +0000, Dave Brown wrote:

> The past day or 2, my mozilla browser seems to be unable to render several
> URLs served as ".shtml" pages. Has something "broken" or have the sources
> added something to those pages which mozilla can't handle?
>
> I've always assumed that there wasn't really any difference between .html
> and .shtml other than the way they were tranmitted. Perhaps this is not
> true?

My guess would be that the problem lies at the server end. AFAIAA your
assumption is correct, *but* the server(apache at least) has to be
configured to serve shtml.

>From an apache httpd.conf:

#
# To use server-parsed HTML files
#
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Regards,
Dave

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