Fetch Softworks

Extra characters inserted (5 posts)

• Started 18 years ago by tcianci
• Latest reply 18 years ago from tcianci

• tcianci Member

  When I upload files, Fetch inserts three characters at the very start of the file: Ôªø

  These characters will then appear at the top of the webpage when it opens. I'm reasonably certain that it's Fetch that's doing this. I use BBEdit to write the pages. I've loaded pages to a Yahoo-hosted site and a Fatcow-hosted site, and the same characters appear before the <!DOCTYPE> tag on the uploaded files. When I use FTP Thingy to upload, no characters are inserted.

  How do these characters get inserted? More important, how do I get it to stop? Anyone have an idea?

  Thanks,
  Terry

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Could you upload a file, then choose "View Text File" from the Remote menu, and see if the funny characters appear? If they do choose "Fetch Transcript" from the Window menu and post the contents of that window.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 18 years ago #

• tcianci Member

  I reloaded my index.html file, and the strange characters returned. Here's the contents of the Fetch Transcript:

  fetch 4.0.3 System 0x1038 Serial FETCHFL001-8PT6-T0JA TR
  Connecting to ftp.fatcow.com port 21 (4/6/05 9:35:49 PM)
  220 FatCow FTP Server ready
  USER heirlo
  331 Password required for heirlo.
  PASS
  230 User heirlo logged in.
  SYST
  215 UNIX Type: L8
  PWD
  257 "/" is current directory.
  MACB ENABLE
  500 MACB not understood
  PWD
  257 "/" is current directory.
  PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (65,254,254,34,233,52)
  LIST
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
  -rw-r--r-- 1 heirlo www 2307 Apr 5 21:37 barn.html
  drwxr-xr-x 2 heirlo www 4096 Oct 7 2004 cgi-bin
  -rw-r--r-- 1 heirlo www 4481 Apr 5 21:37 daycamp.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 heirlo www 1957 Apr 5 21:37 diningHall.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 heirlo www 2750 Apr 5 21:37 directions.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 heirlo www 3397 Apr 6 17:55 index.html
  226 Transfer complete.
  PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (65,254,254,34,233,77)
  STOR index.html
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for index.html
  226 Transfer complete.
  Upload complete at 4/6/05 9:36:10 PM
  SIZE index.html
  213 3397
  MDTM index.html
  213 20050407013600
  PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (65,254,254,34,233,123)
  RETR index.html
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for index.html
  226 Transfer complete.
  PWD
  257 "/" is current directory.

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Could you email the file and the URL of your site to bugs at fetchsoftworks dot com? I'd like to see if I can reproduce the problem.

  Also, do you have any 3rd party Internet security software installed (such as Norton Personal Firewall)?

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 18 years ago #

• tcianci Member

  It looks like the problem is somewhere other than Fetch. I use BBEdit as my editor, and these characters don't show up when the file is opened with BBEdit. But when the file is opened with TextEdit from the File>Open... command with Ignore Rich Text Commands checked, there they are.

  I edited these characters out with TextEdit, saved them, and uploaded them with Fetch, and they now load clean. I may have copied them in somehow, and BBedit isn't showing them to me. Strange! At least I now know that Fetch isn't the culprit (perhaps just another example of my coding ineptitude!).

  Thanks, Jim, for your assistance.

  Terry

  Posted 18 years ago #