Re: follow up on the "what's up with the w3c site" question

[Al Gilman]

BACKGROUND:

1. Gregory Rosmaita reported difficulty using Lynx to browse
the W3C website when Lynx encountered pages which were transmitted
with a ;qs= parameter on the Content-Type header.

2. Jose Kahan reviewed the problem and indicated that there was
no known need for this parameter in the headers of the pages
to be served from this site [and confirmed no problem when
the parameter was removed].

FOLLOW-UP NOTES:

I dug up the annotation about a fix to Lynx so that it is 
not confused by extraneous parameters on this header.  This is 
described in 

 FOTEMODS
 http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/patches/FOTEMODS

as

1997-07-04 (KaBoom! :)
* Mods of HTMIME.c and HTFile.c to ignore Content-Type parameters other
  than charset when charset is not present, as we do when it is present
  and we know we can handle it. - FM

The fix has been migrated to the "development" version as well, but
the stock 2.7.1 version can be thrown off by parameters other than
charset on Content-Type.  And users should not be expected to have
anything beyond 2.7.1 until another release is made.

--
Al Gilman