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Monday April 17, 2006

Directory Listing Icons and IE 6.0

crhyne notes that the most recent patch levels of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 have problems with the icons Sun ONE Web Server uses in directory listings. This appears to be an IE bug that was introduced in version 6.0.2900.2180 when Microsoft tried to fix IE's handling of malicious image files. A future Web Server service pack should include a work around.

In the meantime, you can manually replace the icons in Web Server's ns-icons directory with the following images:

The above images have all been tweaked to keep IE happy.

posted by elving Apr 17 2006, 01:35:03 PM PDT Permalink Comments [2]

Web Server User Group in New York on April 25

Sun will be holding a User Group meeting in New York on April 25. I'll be there. If you use any flavour of our web server -- iPlanet Web Server, Sun ONE Web Server, or Sun Java System Web Server -- I'd like you to be there, too!

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posted by elving Apr 17 2006, 10:30:22 AM PDT Permalink Comments [1]

Tuesday April 04, 2006

Search Engines and 301 Permanent Redirects

Some people believe that 302 redirects can have an adverse impact on search engine rankings. Here's how to configure 301 permanent redirects instead.

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posted by elving Apr 04 2006, 04:42:46 AM PDT Permalink Comments [21]