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Posted by: Dr Z Oct 5 2009, 01:38 PM

I have site for the company I am involved in, for a few years. I have not made ny changes to it at least for a year. Last time I connected to this site was about 2 weeks ago to show it to a potential customer.

Site is www.allscape-landscaping.com

Today, I tried to connect to it with FireFox, but I get a message "You have chosen to open file which is text/x-server-parsed-html........."

I am totally at a loss since no change was made to the site; however, something happened! What, How & Where??????????

Any words of wisdom, pointers or suggestions?

Please note that I can connect to it usinf filezilla.

Posted by: pandy Oct 5 2009, 07:32 PM

Changes must have been made to the server. Odd though, http://www.allscape-landscaping.com/index.html works. Do you have some other file there that the server may choose the serve as dafault index? index.shtml doesn't exist. 'text/x-server-parsed-html' is an old mime type for SSI docs.

Posted by: Dr Z Oct 5 2009, 07:49 PM

I think that something has happened in the meanwhile. But what? Nobody except me has access to it. I do not have any file that can be construed as a default index, except index.html in the root directory.

Posted by: pandy Oct 5 2009, 09:55 PM

Is it your own server?

Posted by: pandy Oct 6 2009, 12:01 PM

Did you notice that the mysterious file with the text/x-server-parsed-html content-type is identical with your index.html?

Posted by: Dr Z Oct 6 2009, 01:14 PM

Site is hosted by cphosting.

At a cursory look the mysterious file seems to be exactly the same (code wise) but the appearance is completely different, due to lack of style sheets & SSI`include function.

Posted by: pandy Oct 6 2009, 01:22 PM

QUOTE(Dr Z @ Oct 6 2009, 08:14 PM) *

Site is hosted by cphosting.

So how do you know nothing has changed on the server?

QUOTE
At a cursory look the mysterious file seems to be exactly the same (code wise) but the appearance is completely different, due to lack of style sheets & SSI`include function.


It's byte by byte the same document. So question is what's happening.

Posted by: Dr Z Oct 6 2009, 01:33 PM

Just noticed this, when looked at the "downloads" screen of Firefox:

A different file, each with a different name, was created every time I tried. However, the file extension is .part every time. Such as:

Etd7kakN.part

I do not know what that means.

Posted by: pandy Oct 6 2009, 11:53 PM

I only know .part in this context http://filext.com/file-extension/PART . If FF does something like that I haven't noticed it. Strange.

Do you have other directories with index files there? Could you check if the same thing happens when you try to access them with a browser?

Posted by: Dr Z Oct 7 2009, 11:11 AM

Yes. Same thing happens in every sub-directory.

Posted by: pandy Oct 7 2009, 12:04 PM

Talk to your host.

Posted by: Dr Z Oct 7 2009, 06:54 PM

QUOTE(pandy @ Oct 7 2009, 10:04 AM) *

Talk to your host.


I guess I do not have much of a choice, do I?

Still, thanks for trying to help. blink.gif blink.gif

Posted by: pandy Oct 8 2009, 04:52 AM

Yeah, if you haven't done anything funky, it must be them.

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