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

[Nick Russo]

Ian,
Apply the flag -force_html to lynx to make it interpret a page as html
even though the extension is not htm or html. I assume this only operates
on the initial page. 

> lynx -force_html index.txt

I wouldn't call it a bug, but yes, this behavoir is visible in Netscape as
well. I used to think index.html~ was URL syntax for seeing the source
file. Of course, it was really just a emacs back-up copy, and since the
extension wasn't htm or html, netscape viewed it as text. Is it standard
for http to give out the mime type? And are these a reliable way for
browsers to determine the viewing method? I don't know the answers here.

Nick Russo

On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Ian McDonald wrote:

>   
>   Hi,
>   
>   I have noticed that Lynx 2.6 tries to download rather than
>   display a MIME-type text/html file if it has a non-standard
>   suffix.
>   
>   This is particularly galling as the without-graphics versions
>   of some sites are distinguished by a non-standard suffix (eg .ht1,
>   standing for HTML level 1.)
>   
>   Is there a way round this?
>   
>   And is this obedience to the suffix rather than the MIME-type
>   a bug that crops up in many browsers?
>   
>   Thanks,
>   
>   Ian
>   
>   Dr. Ian McDonald
>   Internet Developer
>   FT Information
>   http://www.info.ft.com/
> 
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