.shtm extension files in my browsers

psdasilva · Apprentice Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 239

Hi!

All my installed browsers (ff, konqueror, opera) show *some* .shtm files, with html contents, as text source code. If I save them to the HD with .html extensions and then reopen those files they show up fine!
How do I "tell" the browsers to interpret these files?

Example:
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/212_fall2003.web.dir/Dane_Lenaker/refrigerator.shtm

Thanks
Paulo

tarpman · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject:

I'm pretty sure that's the server's fault. I've never seen .shtm before - usually it's .shtml. That could be confusing the servers, resulting in them passing the default content type of text/plain to us.

qisback · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Derby

yes if I remember correctly that is a server problem, some thing to do with the cgi interpretor.

I remember coming across it when I was setting apache up on my server, if you like I'll try dig out the exact problem and how I solved it.

-={Q}=-

psdasilva · Apprentice Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 239

At the time I posted this question I didn't know how browser/server protocol works. Apparently this has nothing to do with "extensions" but with the way Content-Type in the page is interpreted by the browser.
The site in question shows
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
and firefox displays this as a text while IE interprets it as html. Which is right? That's the question.

Nevertheless it is still strange that if I save this page to the HD, even with the extension .shtm, and reloaded it from there it interprets the page as html.

I don't know much about this stuff anyway ...

skellr · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

psdasilva · Apprentice Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 239

I misunderstood the way things work! In fact the server provides a Header and that's that header that tells what is the nature of the document. Anyway, when the file is on the HD how does the ff work? Does it look at the file extension or at the doc contents?

About which is right ...:
There are lots of pages like that. IE shows them. ff not. This, together with other less understandable cases, may put many people away from using ff.

Well ... this is a discussion for others fora. I posted the question here at first because I thought I had my ff misconfigured.

skellr · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

This should have a better explanation.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_Mozilla_determines_MIME_Types