Include webbot and V6 meta tag

[Dani Reinhardt]

I inherited a site that uses webbot includes. They worked
fine until I upgraded to FrontPage 2003 now they simply
don't. No change to the server.
As I experimented, I discovered that if I remove the meta
tag:
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
the page will suddenly recognize the webbot.

Anyone know if this is a documented change? Or know of
anyway to disaple the automatic insertion of the meta tag?

My solution is to move the pages to .asp's and use
regular includes but this will take a lot of work to
rewrite the .htm's and put in redirects.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

FP Include pages work fine in FP2003 if they are .htm pages
- make sure you have turned on Author-time Web Components in Tools Page Options Authoring

There is a problem w/ including .asp pages in FP2003, and a workaround is being investigated
See the thread in the client newsgroup
Re: Include Page in FP2003




| I inherited a site that uses webbot includes. They worked
| fine until I upgraded to FrontPage 2003 now they simply
| don't. No change to the server.
| As I experimented, I discovered that if I remove the meta
| tag:
| <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
| the page will suddenly recognize the webbot.
|
| Anyone know if this is a documented change? Or know of
| anyway to disaple the automatic insertion of the meta tag?
|
| My solution is to move the pages to .asp's and use
| regular includes but this will take a lot of work to
| rewrite the .htm's and put in redirects.
|
|

 

[John Jansen \(MSFT\)]

I am surprised that removing that metatag would fix the pages; but apart
from that: by default new pages will not get that metatag anymore. If they
do, you can go into the Tools > Page Options > Authoring tab and uncheck the
box to include Generator and ProgID tags.

-John