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

[Ian McDonald]

The server seems to be returning the right MIME-type; 

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;                       
Content-length: 5685                           
Last-modified: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:20:06 GMT   


On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Al Gilman 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.
> 
> --
> Al Gilman
> 

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