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

[Foteos Macrides]

Al Gilman <address@hidden> wrote:
>The most common source of this problem is mis-configuration of
>servers.
>
>Lynx follows the type indicated by the server in the HTTP header
>fields when the file in question is passed to Lynx as an HTTP
>message.  If the server correctly identifies the message as
>text/html Lynx will process it accordingly.
>
>There are workarounds you can apply on the Lynx side but the
>origin of the problem is mis-management of the site serving you
>the page.

        My reading of the original message also was that it is a
problem of a mismanaged server, and that suffix maps have nothing
to do with it on Lynx's end.  Lynx uses its suffix maps only for
file and ftp URLs, for which a Content-Type header is unavailable.
If the suffix is not mapped to a default in HTInit.c, you can map
it (e.g., for .ht1, ht2, etc.) via SUFFIX: lines in lynx.cfg or
entries in the global or a personal mime.types file.

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