My website www.rembrandtyard.com has a randomly spewed out line of
code at the very bottom. Try as I might I can't get the damn thing to
disappear. I'm coding in Dreamweaver and posting with yahoo web
hosting. I want the page to load as it's supposed to without the line
of random letters at the bottom of the screen

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 02 Sep 2003 17:42 PDT

I suggest you go into the Yahoo control panel (or whatever it's called
for your site) and disable the site statistics.  For my site (hosted
by Yahoo), I can go to a menu labeled "Expert Web Site Tools," then
pick "Site Statistics," then follow the menus to disable the
statistics collection.  That might solve the problem.  If it doesn't
work, let me know and I'll see what I (or some other Researcher) can
come up with next.

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Clarification of Question by bigdumps-ga on 08 Sep 2003 08:55 PDT

Yep, worked like a charm thanks for the help.

Donovan Greene

It looks like maybe you are using the wrong protocol for the transfer?
 Make sure you upload using just plain old Ascii, without any extras. 
Maybe try using a different program for the upload? If that doesn't
help, try saving the file, and opening it with notepad. If the line is
there, some settings are off in your dreamweaver. If you could do what
I suggested, and post the results, maybe I will be able to help you
better...

I'm uploading it through yahoo web hosting right online. THere is no
intermediate program I"m using to upload. Also what is notepad? I'm on
a macintosh and have never heard of that piece of software.

Notepad is the default text editor in Windows. You can use any text
editor that you have access to.

That's a mime header, folks.

No idea why the yahoo server is inserting it.  Call yahoo tech
support.

Might also try messing around with different file extentions, to see
if server handles the differently.

Did you try what mvguy suggested?  It might work, since the mime
header is being inserted right before the site statistics code is
inserted.. maybe the mime header is actually stuck on top of the
statistics code, if you know what I mean.

Here's a short term solution, which doesn't solve the problem, but
hides it:  Put <!-- as the last text in your document.  After </html>.
 This is a comment tag.  Web browsers ignore anything inside comment
tags, (with certain exceptions,) so, opening a tag there puts the mime
header "inside" a comment, thus hiding it. =)

But yeah, this seems to be yahoo's fault.

Hope this helps.

Move those META tags out of SCRIPT and place it under HEAD (like http-equiv).

Dear Donovan, 

Good that everything worked out. 

You may not be aware of it, but despite giving a helpful advice, MVGuy
was not paid for this answer, because you haven't authorised him to do
so.