DISPLAY problem with SSH and Explorer

[sstoecklin@pc.fsu.edu]

I maintain my web pages on a Unix server running SSH
I have for years simply viewed these files by clicking the file name
under SSH File transfew.
All of a sudden when I click on an html file, the explorer screen
comes up and it is blank. If I view source, the source is present.
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Any hints?

 

[Swifty]

> Any hints?

If you can see the source then the problem is likely to be in the
source, and not IE.

In cases like this it is handy to have an alternative browser, just to
convince you that there really is a problem. I normally work my way
through Internet Explorer and Firefox (because my employer insists that
my pages work with these) then Opera, Netscape, Safari and Off-by-One.
I take a lot of convincing that I've made a mistake, normally

If you had an unpaired double quote, in a style file, or early enough in
your HTML, and you had no other double quotes later on, then you would
see blank pages, as all your source is being interpreted as a parameter
somewhere.

If my hypothesis is correct then most of my list of browsers would show
blank pages. There are probably other unmatched pairs of characters
that could create such havoc.

The Interenet Explorer Developer Toolbar allows you to inspect what IE
thinks of the source, rather than just viewing it.

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
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