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Subject: 
Re: Unofficial Parts Update
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Date: 
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:25:11 GMT
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Daniel:

> > Yes. Or to be exact: If you ask for
> > 
> >    http://www.ldraw.org/<something>.html
> > 
> > it will redirect you to
> > 
> >    http://www.ldraw.org/<something>
> > 
> > (which in general will identify the same document)
> 
> But this breaks handling of HTML for browsers that only
> rely on the extension or the content-type header

Since the "Content-Type" field in the HTTP header is set
correctly, it is only defect browsers, which use extensions
to determine file types, that will get in trouble.

> In this example NS appears to be the only browser
> working correctly - it doesn't treat the page as HTML
> because the content-type indicates it's plain text and
> therefore should not be handled as HTML.

That was because the files on the server were marked as not
being HTML (despite what Steve believed he had done ;-).

Jacob
--
"Borg!"



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Unofficial Parts Update
 
"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message news:Pine.OSF.4.21.0....nbi.dk... (...) Ah, I see it's working now. I didn't check it after Chris had mentioned that it was now working. Dan (25 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
  Re: Unofficial Parts Update
 
(...) OK, fine. So how do I mark the files as HTML, besides giving them an .html extension (which I've now done)? Steve (25 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Unofficial Parts Update
 
"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message news:Pine.OSF.4.21.0....nbi.dk... (...) But this breaks handling of HTML for browsers that only rely on the extension or the content-type header (Netscape being the biggest one!). Maybe adding (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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