HTTP Header Information Appears on Web Page

We accessed www.publicstorage.com several times during the same week, and the page erroneously looked like the following each time:

The text at the top of the page appears to be HTTP header information. (HTTP is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the set of rules for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. See www.whatis.com for more information on HTTP.) The publicstorage.com Web or application server must be generating the header incorrectly. Why? If the header information was being transmitted correctly, the browser would not be displaying it.

Let's use the utility at www.http.header.free.fr to get a better picture of the exact header that the publicstorage.com Web server is transmitting. The utility indicates the header is:

HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:38:30 GMT
Set-Cookie: BIGipServerTotalMoving=1815955008.20480.0000; path=/
Location: http://www.publicstorage.com/servlet/MainServlet?page=/index.jsp
Content-Length: 185
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDGQQGQUBK=NNJIFJHBCALPNOBFJICEJOLH; path=/
Cache-control: private

This problem would have likely been detected in Web testing and by Testware's Web Check 40 or Web Check Daily packages.


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