Carlo Perassi wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Greg Ames sent those random bytes: > > Can you try it again with current cvs HEAD? I'm not familiar with the W3C > > Validator test, but I would hope that if it saw a good http Content-Type header, > > it wouldn't need the stuff in the html meta line.
> it's trivial to change the Apache C code to generate W3C pages but they have > technical reasons which don't permit to define a meta tag with charset > definition... Well, really it's more of a philosophical issue than a technical reason. This code should be as simple as possible due to its use in error situations, plus I dislike the idea of having to maintain the same information in two different places. But if the meta tag is necessary for some reason (which I don't understand) we can easily add it, as you pointed out. What do the html experts think? Joshua? Cliff? > so some minutes ago, on the Apache CVS tree it's appeared a fix > for a header problem, and as Greg Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said > "I would hope that if (the Validator) saw a good http Content-Type header, > it wouldn't need the stuff in the html meta line." > > Before trying the new Apache CVS code... Carlo, I don't think the fix I commited will make a difference here, now that I see what you are doing. So trying cvs HEAD would be a waste of your time. It only improves things when an ErrorDocument local redirect fails. You are already getting a good http Content-Type header from apache.org, but no meta tag in the html. I am curious to hear what the W3C Validator people say. > carlo@voyager:~$ telnet www.apache.org 80 > Trying 63.251.56.142... > Connected to daedalus.apache.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > GET http://www.apache.org/doesntexist.html HTTP/1.0 > > HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:41:38 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Unix) > Content-Length: 287 > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> > <html><head> > <title>404 Not Found</title> > </head><body> > <h1>Not Found</h1> > <p>The requested URL /doesntexist.html was not found on this server.</p> > <hr /> > <address>Apache/2.0.40 Server at www.apache.org Port 80</address> > </body></html> > Connection closed by foreign host. Greg
