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Posted by ironcorona on 05/15/06 19:12
Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> ironcorona wrote:
>> omeldoid@gmail.com wrote:
>>> is there no notion
>>> of `localhost' and a local http server in windows?
>> Of course there is. You just point the browser at a html file on your
>> your local disk.
>
> That's not the same thing. Also Windows doesn't have alocal web server
> by default, you have to install one (typically PWS, or maybe Apache)
> For subtle bugs, looking at files in a filesystem is certainly NOT the
> same thing as a web server. You don't get HTTP headers, so you often
> see browsers behaving differently. It's OK for quick draft design work,
> but don't go bug-hunting this way.
Ah yes, of course. There's no dispute there. But for many things that
can go wrong IMHO you don't need to have the page on a server.
--
Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)
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