Redirect in Firefox but not in IE6

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Duncan Chesley

Hi,

I am trying to prevent browsers from viewing the list of files in my
FP web folder. Following a suggestion from this NG, I created an
index.htm file in the folder with a tag like:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.website.com">

between <head> and </head>. There is nothing else in the page except
the html tags.

When I browse directly to the URL of the "hidden" folder in FireFox
this works and redirects to website.com. In IE6 on two different
machines it results in a blank page. This also fails if I name the
file default.htm.

Does anyone know a solution to make this behave correctly in both
browsers?

TIA
Duncan
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Is IE set to follow Meta redirects under Tools | Internet Options | Advanced?

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Duncan Chesley

Is IE set to follow Meta redirects under Tools | Internet Options | Advanced?
Click to expand...

Hi Thomas:

I do not find that option in my list of boxes to check. Am I blind?
I'm running IE6 with automatic MS updating turned on, so I assume
everything is up-to-date.

Thanks for the reply.

Duncan
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Sorry, it is under the Security tab | Custom | Miscellaneous | Allow META REFRESH

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Duncan Chesley

Sorry, it is under the Security tab | Custom | Miscellaneous | Allow META REFRESH
Click to expand...

Thomas:

That certainly looked promising. It is Enabled. I tried Disable. Still
fails. Re-Enable. Still fails. I have never used the facility to move
sites to a different zone. Everything is in Internet Zone.

Am I missing something?

Thank you for the reply.
Duncan
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Can you post a URL?

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Thomas A. Rowe

Can you provide the actual URL?

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Duncan Chesley

Mr. Rowe was very helpful in private communication. The conclusion was
that this was some issue with XP SP2 security, and the the best
immediate mechanism for hiding the files in the folder was to have my
ISP disable directory browsing for my entire site.

Thank you very much, Thomas!
Duncan
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

You are welcome.

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Duncan Chesley

I can still browse your images and the financialimages directories. All you need to do is put an index page in each one...sorry-directory not available
Click to expand...

Yes, Rob. I did that for the folders that I needed to keep private.
Today I've asked my host to block all the other folders at the server
end. We'll see.

Thanks.
Duncan
 

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