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[users@httpd] Weird charakters added to the top of html pages

Hey guys,

I do experience a weird issue. This has been going on for some time though.
Apache adds 3 weird looking charakters to the top of some HTML pages:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">
<html>


The real file on the command prompt starts like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">
<html>

I guess this is an encoding issue. But my config file does contain a 
"AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1".
The page I do refert to does contain the following charset definition:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

May this be the reason? What do I have to do to fix it?

Regards,
Samy


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Re: [users@httpd] Weird charakters added to the top of html pages

Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Nov 8, 2007 2:24 PM, Samuel Vogel <sa...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Ok, I did think that not saving as UTF8 was the problem:
> But is there some on the fly workaround? Since some of my users seem to
> be to dumb to do it by there selfs.

I don't know what browsers do with the BOM in html files. It is
possible that if you properly mark the file as UTF (in the
Content-Type header, using AddEncoding in httpd.conf), you might have
better luck.

There are various ways to edit files on-the-fly in apache, but they
are very resource-intensive and not a good solution to this problem.

Joshua.

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Re: [users@httpd] Weird charakters added to the top of html pages

Posted by Samuel Vogel <sa...@gmx.de>.
Ok, I did think that not saving as UTF8 was the problem:
But is there some on the fly workaround? Since some of my users seem to 
be to dumb to do it by there selfs.

Regards,
Samy

Joshua Slive schrieb:
> On Nov 8, 2007 2:01 PM, Samuel Vogel <sa...@gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I do experience a weird issue. This has been going on for some time though.
>> Apache adds 3 weird looking charakters to the top of some HTML pages:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">
>> <html>
>>     
>
> That's the UTF BOM, added by your editor not apache. See:
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-utf8-bom
>
> Joshua.
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Re: [users@httpd] Weird charakters added to the top of html pages

Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Nov 8, 2007 2:01 PM, Samuel Vogel <sa...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I do experience a weird issue. This has been going on for some time though.
> Apache adds 3 weird looking charakters to the top of some HTML pages:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">
> <html>

That's the UTF BOM, added by your editor not apache. See:
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-utf8-bom

Joshua.

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