[pmwiki-users] action=source question

[Allister Jenks]

On 5/3/06, Curtis, Clayton <Clayton.Curtis at va.gov> wrote:
> Thanks for the response and the suggestions. I looked at file types and
> found that php on misbehaving machines had been set up to open files in
> Notepad. When I removed that, all worked fine. I have no idea why, since
> the file should have been processed on the =server=, not the client.
> Also, I had observed that if I directly entered a URL like
> ..../pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage?action=source  it worked just fine on
> ANY machine.  Oh, well, another mystery. But thanks for pointing me to
> the solution!!!

The difference, I suspect, is that when you enter
http://blahblah/pmwiki.php you are requesting a php document but the
server intercedes and returns an HTML document, which the browser
displays as you would expect.  With the source, I would have thought
it would return a 'text' document, but apparently it *returns* it as
PHP.  Subtle differences.

:-)

Glad to be of assistance.

--
Allister