Re: LYNX-DEV lynx, text/html and non-standard suffixes

[Ian McDonald]

I have recalibrated the server thus, and lynx still fails to recognise it
as HTML.  The address is http://www.info.ft.com/index.ht1.

HEAD /index.ht1 HTTP/1.0                      
                                              
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                               
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 14:53:47 GMT           
Server: Apache/1.2.0                          
Last-Modified: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 14:20:17 GMT  
ETag: "10e231-1066-33bd06a1"                  
Content-Length: 4198                          
Accept-Ranges: bytes                          
Connection: close                             
Content-Type: text/html; level=1; qs=0.8      
X-Pad: avoid browser bug                      

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

> to follow up on what Ian McDonald said:
> > 
> > The server seems to be returning the right MIME-type; 
> >
> At least it tried.
>  
> > HEAD /index.ht1 HTTP/1.0                       
> >                                                
> > HTTP/1.0 200 OK                                
> > Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:34:26 GMT            
> > Server: Apache/1.1.1                           
> > Content-type: text/html;                       
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> 
> Possibly Lynx 2.6 is engaging in less-than-gracefull degradation
> on receipt of an incorrect header.  I believe per RFC 822 the
> semicolon doesn't belong there unless a name=value parameter
> definition is to follow.  There is no parameter in this case.
> The null parameter-spec could be breaking the recognition of the
> whole header field.
> 
> I never found a full URL to your page to try it with 2.7.
> 
> --
> Al Gilman
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