Re: Page Not showing wiht netscape Navgator

Thanks A million the file Ext worked , Who would have thought it was so
simple
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Antonio" <santonio(at)delanet.com>
To: "hwg-basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>; "David Pippen" <gadale(at)earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: Page Not showing wiht netscape Navgator


> > Can anyone tell me why this page will not show Netscape Navigator
> > www.georgia-dale-specialty.com/News
>
> David,
>
> The page shows up in Navigator 4.08 when I download it to my desktop.  Is
> the file name for your page just "News" with no extension?  If so, then
the
> MIME information that a server sends with the page may be missing or
wrong.
> Apparently Navigator and  Internet Explorer interpret this situation
> differently.  Navigator is assuming it is a text file and Internet
Explorer
> assumes it is an HTML file (which happens to be right in this case).  I
> didn't test this so I could be way off base, but it sounds good doesn't
it?
> :-)  Try adding an "htm" or "html" extension to your file name and see if
> that solves the problem.
>
> BTW- MIME designates the type of content the page contains.  Webservers
know
> what it is and pass this information along to the client (browser) by
> looking at the extension of the file.  For instance: A text file would be
> 'filename.txt' and would be given the MIME type of "text/plain".  A web
page
> would be 'webpage.htm(l)' and be given the MIME type of "text/html".
>
> Worthy of Mention-  I noticed you had some paragraph and image elements in
> the 'head' section of your page.  These need to be in the 'body' section.
>
> Steven A.
>
>

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