My mainpage, trying to redirect and to let it start automaticcaly but all of my eff Options

[Silvarha]

So here i am again with a stupid noob question:

I've made a list of documents in frame (i know, i know you guys hate it, but thats not the point)

I uploaded them on my server (telenet) and if i visit my site, my browser just gives me a list of my documents and i have to start the Index.html file manually. So...How to get it started automatically?

Hope you guys can help

thnx in advance

PS: I might not be so clear, so ask me if you need more information about my issue

[pandy]

See if renaming Index.html to index.html helps.

[Silvarha]

huh I thought latest HTMl wasnt uppercase sensitive?

Silv

[pandy]

HTML isn't. Servers, and thusly URLs, may be.

This isn't a HTML isssue. The server is configured to show certain files as "index files". They follow a list. It could look something like this: "index.php, index.shtml, index.html, index.htm", but you can basically put whatever you want in the list. Assuming the list looks like in my example, the server first looks for index.php. If the file exists the server grabs it, otherwise it moves on to look for the next file on the list. If the server is case sensitive (most are since they are Linux based) and Index.html isn't on the list...

[pandy]

Forgot to ask if you tried and if it worked.

[Darin McGrew]

huh I thought latest HTMl wasnt uppercase sensitive?

HTML isn't. Servers, and thusly URLs, may be.

Technically, URLs are always case-sensitive, except for the server name. Some servers may deliver the same content for both foo.html and FOO.HTML, but they are still different URLs and the browser (and any proxies between the browser and the server) must treat them as different URLs.

[pandy]

Ah. So even if the server isn't case sensitive (or handles this in another way) and I get to page.html when I type PAGE.HTML, a cached copy wouldn't be used if it was cached when I used the opposite case?

[Darin McGrew]

Yep. And FWIW, the same thing happens when a server sends the same documents from www.example.com as it does for example.com (without the www).

[pandy]

Yeah, but that's more obvious unless you think the www is part of the protocol.

I'm beginning to faintly recall I may have heard this before, but that's probably deja vu. Thanks for telling me.