The following reply was made to PR general/4213; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Steve Mencik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: general/4213: .htaccess skipped when IE5 has friendly error messages set Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:05:54 -0400 I have complained to Microsoft. They claim it is Apache's problem. Their solution is to turn off "friendly error messages". Unfortunately, I cannot tell all potential customers to do that! Hopefully the developers from Apache can talk to their counterparts at Microsoft and straighten this out. You should have a lot more clout with them than I do. As for the redirect statements, is it possible within .htaccess to redirect *.htm to the equivalent *.shtml? If not, then the solution I chose is the best way to do what I want, without a whole slew of Redirect statements in the .htaccess file. Or are you saying that I should have a "Location:" field in my returned document instead of using the META tag method? Thanks for your help. Steve Mencik ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <apache-bugdb@apache.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 10:56 PM Subject: Re: general/4213: .htaccess skipped when IE5 has friendly error messages set > [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] > [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] > [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] > [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] > [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] > [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] > [from a developer. ] > [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ] > > > Synopsis: .htaccess skipped when IE5 has friendly error messages set > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: marc > State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 8 19:56:35 PDT 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > Nope, this is entirely the fualt of the client. Please > complain to Microsoft. > > More to the point, you are doing the redirect by putting > a meta tag in the body. Don't do that! Just do a proper > HTTP redirect and the client can read it. > > Alternatively, if you make your files large enough by padding > them with something, IE will display them.
