HTML - Character Encoding And Web Servers

I have no clue what to title this. Forgive me.

Here is my situation. I have a .zip file full of data that I am trying to sell online. I want customers to go to my site, read about the product, and then click BUY NOW. It will take you to AlertPay's page, where you can submit your payment information. After that, I have set it up to return you to a confirmation page which is on my sever.

http://myservice.com/thank-you-for-your-order.html

On this page, I'll have a link to download the file.

The problem is, I don't want people passing out my link "http://myservice.com/thank-you-for-your-order.html" and going directly to the page and download the data without paying for it first. Is there a way that I can restrict people from viewing any one page on my site, if they did not come from a particular inbound server like alertpay.com first? Didn't know if the page could detect what link the viewer came from and push them away... at least with standard HTML code. Just curious...

I know how to put code into the site so that it doesn't appear in search engines, but I need to prevent people from bookmarking the page and sending it to friends who refuse to pay.

Thanks.

Hey all! We seem to be having an issue with something. We changed the nameservers for a domain to a different hosting company and made up a new site for that host. Everything went fine. When I view the site on my computer the new site is there as it should be. However on my friend's computer it's still pulling up the old site with the old host, even though we've cleared out all the cookies, cache, etc. Sometimes the new site will pop up for a bit, then the old site shows up again, only on his computer.

We're both going through the same internet service provider and I can't think of a single reason why his computer would be doing that. Any ideas?

Hey guys,

I'm managing this website that my boss created. I'm a devoted Dreamweaver user and she created it HTML style. I need help because I can't figure out why it's not showing up in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Netscape. It shows up in Safari, but that's not going to satisfy our client.

Here's the url:

http://www.kwph.com

it's the logo under the About Us section.

Thank you for any help

Jordan

Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this question but I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for building websites not with .NET technology (ie .aspx etc) that allow you to do something similar like master pages and content pages.

For example in .NET you can create a master page and then have content pages which automatically "link" to the master page so a header or template that you have in the master page is automatically kept and the content pages are just "loaded" into the contentDiv.

I hope I'm making myself clear enough. One way I thought is maybe you create index.html and then all your links etc and header and footer and in the middle put a div. Then you can use javascript to set the contentDiv to whatever page you want with an iframe?

Is that the correct approach?

Thanks,
SS

when a webserver sends response to a request, what kind of default encoding does it use ?

I read following lines in one article. What does it mean by similar content-type ? similar to what ?

"For a web page, the original idea was that the web server would return a similar Content-Type http header along with the web page itself -- not in the HTML itself, but as one of the response headers that are sent before the HTML page"

thanks

Hi,

I'm using JavaScript to write out an html form (you can ignore the JS and just look at the html form). I'm trying to build a URL in the form using hidden inputs. Everything works fine, except when the user hits the run button the '%' signs get turned into '%25'... so the URL looks something like:

Code:

http://sampleformaction.com/query?CMD_1=%2526CMD%253Dname_of_command%2526field_1%253Dvalue_1%2526field_2%253Dvalue_2&CMD_2=

....

I've tried changing my percent signs in the value tag to %25, but then I just end up with %252526... Any ideas?

Thanks

Code:

link_html += "<input type='hidden' name='CMD_1' value='%26CMD%3Dname_of_command%26field_1%3Dvalue_1%26field_2%3Dvalue_2' />";

link_html += "<input type='submit' value='Run' />";
link_html += "</form>";

document.getElementById('report_links').innerHTML = link_html;

In a html file I found, it had

‎ & # 8 2 0 6 ;

(The above but without whitespace in it.)
Does anyone know which character this is for?

Aloha!

I have created my site with a resolution of 1280 x 800. Now I understand a bit more about resolution.

In order to create my site with a lower resolution, do I merely change my computer's resolution by going to the control panel, and then composing my entire site again?
What is the best resolution in which to create it?

I also have a question about encoding. When one save's the html. document, how does one know which of the options in which to save it?

Thank you for your help.

I am stumped finding the right decoder for this.

For example, a string like "farmer&#39s" obviously wiould decode to "farmer's". I can't figure out what this type of encoding is called.

I'm trying to find the right decoder for it. (Searching on punctuation symbols doesn't work too well for me.) When I put it between html tags, it shows up with the coding, so my browser isn't decoding it.

Can someone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks

Hi gang!

i have had limited exposure to different page encodings..

the two most popular encodings i have seen around a

utf-8

iso-8859-1

what's the primary difference between the two? i noticed that Google largly uses utf-8

i tried searching through w3c and on google and i know it's probably me but where could i find a good explaination of the pros and cons of both of these?



for example, is it better to use iso-8859-1 when designing a file transfer mechanism

and utf-8 for general page language proper translation via various online website translators like Google's

hi !
I need help with chars encoding on some project
in source with encoding "Windows-1251" I have line Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />

but when I or someone other visit site encoding is UTF-8 and he can't read Cyrillic chars
any help will be good for me

I'm using Amaya to write some really simple HTML. If I insert any characters in the range 128-255 (e.g. the degree symbol, 176, or non-breaking space, 160) then instead of embedding ' ' or '°' into the document it actually puts in the byte sequence 0 194 0 176 (degree symbol) or 0 194 0 160 (non-breaking space). In hex these sequences look like 00 C2 00 B0 or 00 C2 00 A0. So it appears that 194 (xC2) is some kind of escape character. However I can find no documentation anywhere which mentions that this is valid HTML - can anyone point me at some?

Mike

I am srahasan. I have faced some problem with manually change the encoding of the HTML files to US or Western ASCII.

pls any one help me about this matter.


thnx in advance.

srahsan

Hi all,

I ran a link check for my site using software. and i got the errors as INVALID CHARACTER details are as below.

Page -
Category - 108 - Invalid character
Date - 11/16/08
Severity - 5
Message - The character " ( 0x22 ) is not a valid ASCII character

can anyone pls let me know what is this error and how could it be resolve ??

thanks a lot

Such is called 'x bar' in mathematics.