Re: lynx-dev Incorrect content-type-headers

[Ari Moisio]

On 20 Jun 1998, Jason F. McBrayer wrote:

> >>>>> "PW" == Philip Webb <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> PW> so a further question: does the server vary its response here
> PW> according to something in the page in question or does it respond
> PW> the same way for all pages it handles, which would seem to be very
> PW> awkward?
> 
> It depends on the particular http server in question.  Most servers
> set MIME content types based on extensions, though others set them
> based on local file-type (Mac) or based on a catalog of files and
> types, or on magic number.

  This particular server is Apache 1.2.5 and it uses mime.types-file to
match  file name extensions an mime types.  On that file there is type
text/html for both .htm and .html so the problem is prbably not in .htm
extensions.
 
> >> The problem stays: how to force Lynx to render the page as html
> >> despite mime-headers?
>  
> PW> is this something Lynx could & should provide for?
> 
> I'm not sure it's something Lynx should provide for, though it
> certainly could.  Maybe just more agressive behavior for -force-html.
> It should definately be only something invoked conciously by the user
> when needed, or else we fall into the MSIE evil of pretending to know
> better than the server what type a file is.

  I  agree completely. -force_html might be most intuitive way to handle
it. 

  I tried to look the source code, answer is somewhere in LYMainLoop.c,
but > 5000 lines of C with speech is too much... especially when C is not
my native language:-(

  There is very few sites like this, i have seen only this one, and
primarily these things should be fixed at the server side.
> -- 


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