Re: Refresh-Redirect meta tags in IIS 6
From: Alek (alek_at_widernet.org)
Date: 09/07/04
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Date: 7 Sep 2004 09:28:39 -0700
Thanks so much David,
I don't know what I was thinking. It had nothing to do with IIS and
had everything to do with IE6. In the security options the "allow meta
refresh tags" was disabled.
Thanks again,
Alek
"David Wang [Msft]" <someone@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<#ETowA6kEHA.2504@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>...
> Based on what you are saying, I do not think it has anything to do with
> IIS6. The web server has nothing to do with "executing" tags in a static
> HTML file -- the server simply sends that file to the web browser, and the
> web BROWSER is responsible for parsing those tags for display, recognizing
> the meta tags, and making another request to <base>/Views/index.htm to the
> web server for actual display. Since that URL is also a static file, the
> web server will simply send that file to the browser to display. Thus, the
> web server never "executes" anything in the HTML.
>
> I also set up the same scenario on my IIS6 on Windows Server 2003, and it
> worked just fine. I set up a default document on "/" of www.mysite.com
> that contains the meta tag, and when I requested www.mysite.com , the
> browser is redirected to www.mysite.com/Views/index.htm and I see the entire
> content of that file.
>
> Thus, I believe that your problem comes from other software running on IIS6
> that is getting confused, probably due to bugs in themselves. Please give
> details on what other software you are running and how they are configured
> (ISAPI or CGI like ASP/ASP.Net/Perl/PHP/JSP, etc).
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> //
> "Alek" <alek@widernet.org> wrote in message
> news:7703dc03.0409031208.21b1dc49@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> We are trying to set up a web site under IIS 6 on Windows 2003 Server
> and here's the problem we are running into:
> We have a default.htm page that we point our IIS document root to. The
> page has some basic html stuff like the header, etc. At the end of the
> page we have this meta tag <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
> URL=Views/index.htm" that redirects the page to views/index.htm. So,
> for example when the user types in www.mysite.com, this should take
> them to www.mysite.com/Views/index.htm.
>
> What happens is when you try to browse this web, only the header shows
> up in the page and I'm pretty sure it's because when it gets to that
> meta tag it's not executing it correctly and thus not redirecting me
> to where I'm supposed to go. There are many reasons why we need this
> structure that I don't want to get into. Pointing the document root on
> IIS 6 to index.htm would not work for us either.
>
> We've had this web running on Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5 for years
> now with no problems what so ever.Any ideas what is it in IIS 6 that
> is causing this? Is this some kind of security issue?Please help!!!
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Alek
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