Poor thing hasn't got a chance

[ebonlock]

Tried to make some changes to my website last night but I'm having the weirdest problem. I futz with the HTML file offline, save it, then attempt to upload it. Somehow between the time I've saved it and the FTP transfer it's getting corrupted somehow. My links especially are just going nutty and I've no idea why. I finally degenerate into screaming, "Save properly, damn you!" and then give up in disgust. This is vexing.

Subsequently, many of the links on my site (and a few images) just aren't working. I apologize for that. I'll keep hitting it with a mallet and hoping eventually to get things right.

Oh and I can't seem to load Yahoo this morning, so if you're waiting for mail from me I apologize profusely.

Got to see "Whispers of the Heart" last night which was good, though I still think "The Cat Returns" is better. Which reminds me, I need to go order the latter.

Day by day I'm becoming more convinced that a wireless network would be a very good idea. Of course I'm also convinced that I need to be saving more money than I currently am, especially since it doesn't look like I'm getting any tax return this year :(

Comments

Yipe!

[ebongreen.livejournal.com]

Oh God, uploading HTML files as binary is a sure way in my experience to blow them to Kingdom Come. HTML files are ASCII - they're literally just ASCII text. Binary FTP is for transferring picture files and sound files and executables and all non-text files; don't use ASCII for binary files and don't use binary for ASCII files.

Binary vs Text

[tsmaster.livejournal.com]

My guess is that this isn't the problem. The difference between Binary and ASCII should only have to do with carriage returns and end of file markers - ASCII uploads will allow these to be translated into the receiver's native flavor (Mac, Unix, Windows/DOS all handle end of lines differently, so uploading a file from one platform to another can sometimes benefit from automatic translations).

But, as was said before, HTML is a text format - end of lines shouldn't matter one way or another. If you were uploading binary files (images, programs), then you'd definitely need to make sure that the binary mode was set.

Binary mode preserves the exact bits, so I'm a little confused about the suggestion that it would damage HTML files.

All that said, I can't come up with any good suggestions of what to try doing to fix the problem. The normal debugging routine of trying very small test cases applies, though - try to narrow the phenomenon down to as few variables as possible.