VMS 7.3 vs 8.x - java in HTML files, Hmm.

Hello,

Some time ago my Alphaserver 2000 hardware failed for good. I replaced it with an XP1000 I inherited from my good friend John Wisniewski.

When I put up the new webserver, my friend Mr. Smiley and I loaded VMS 8.3? (it had just come out) on it with Apache. Sure, why not put the latest on?

After FTP-ing some hundreds of HTML files over, I noticed that once they got on the system live, I could use any web browser and view source, and one short line of javascript had been inserted in each HTML file near the beginning. I verified this by FTP-ing the files back to myself and looking at them, sure enough it was there.

I never use jvascript, don't need it, and really it's a browser security hole as far as I am concerned. This was disturbing or I was disturbed by it anyway.

I do not recall what the little string of code was exactly, and it seemed to do nothing, except maybe fiddle with the few pixels of slack between the user's www display width and the width of a simple width="100%" table.

I apologize for not remembering, it has been a while since this and I did not have news access for a very long time, until just now. I had been, for lack of a more exact single word, disinterested in participating for a long time due the Wiz's untimely demise, the Charlie Matco incident, and then the failure of the DEC computer museum before it was even born. It was alot to take but I better get on with it now.

Anyway, I nuked the version 8 system and all the data, went back to 7.3 and the javascript problem went away.

Mr. Smiley and I both read upon the changes 7.3 to 8.x, etc, but could not find anything.

Was VMS 8.3 set up wrong with some default I don't know about or should it be playing with my HTML files? Did Apache do this? Has anyone else seen this?

Sorry for the dumb questions about an obscure problem that I don't remember all the details of. Sorry for whining about my friends. VMS is a hobby for me; a safe in which to keep my important data and a fort from which to serve the many purveyors of recondite interests. I'm not always privy to all the innermost secrets so blast away.

best regards,

Patrick Jankowiak
Master, Opcom's Bunker of Doom
www.bunkerofdoom.com
(the noncom dotcom)
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