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Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents
From: |
Denis N. Antonioli |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:11:57 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> 980428 Jason wrote:
> > When I attempt to read
> > http://lummi.stanford.edu/class/ps142k/WWW/casebook/casebook.htm ,
> > Lynx versions 2.7.1 and 2.8 both display the document as HTML source
> > instead of formatting it. I could not find any error near the beginning
> > of the file, judging from the HTML source as displayed by Lynx,
> > except for the absence of an SGML Document Type Declaration.
> > However, many authors fail to include such declarations in their web pages,
> > and Lynx reads them without difficulty.
> > Thus, the problem must lie elsewhere.
> > Is this phenomenon the result of a bug in Lynx?
>
the problem is in the server. A HEAD for the page gives back:
HEAD /class/ps142k/WWW/casebook/casebook.htm HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 Document follows
Date
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:10:05 GMT
Server
NCSA/1.4.2
Content-type
text/plain
Last-modified
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:57:09 GMT
Content-length
2932
They probably did not put .htm as a valid suffix in the server's mimtype
file...
Greetings,
dna
- --
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
-- Larry Wall in <address@hidden>
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- lynx-dev Oh well... it's been nice... :-|, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Heather Stern, 1998/04/29
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Jason F. McBrayer, 1998/04/29
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Heather Stern, 1998/04/29
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Jason F. McBrayer, 1998/04/29
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Jan Hlavacek, 1998/04/30
- lynx-dev No Dots., John, 1998/04/30
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Michael Warner, 1998/04/29
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Philip Webb, 1998/04/29
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents,
Denis N. Antonioli <=
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Philip Webb, 1998/04/29
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, David Woolley, 1998/04/30
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Foteos Macrides, 1998/04/29
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Foteos Macrides, 1998/04/29
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, David Combs, 1998/04/29
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, David Combs, 1998/04/29
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents, Foteos Macrides, 1998/04/30