Re: html files not named .html

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Message-id: <9311162040.AA20573@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
From: robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 14:40:29 -0600
In-Reply-To: montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)
       "html files not named .html" (Nov 16, 12:24pm)
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To: montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli), www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: html files not named .html

/*
 * html files not named .html  by Lou Montulli (montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu)
 *    written on Nov 16, 12:24pm.
 *
 * Lately there have been alot of people sending me messages
 * saying that they can't read an HTML file with Lynx because
 * all they see is markup.  The reason this is happening is people
 * are naming files with no extension and the NCSA http server
 * returns a mime message with no content-type. X Mosaic is rendering
 * them correctly, because it apparently looks for a <title> or some
 * other tag in the document to try to determine if its HTML.
 * So I would like to see at least two things happen. 
 * 
 * 1) HTTP/1.0 servers should ALWAYS return a content-type tag!!!!!!!!!
 * 2) HTTP/1.0 servers should use the same or similar methods as X mosaic to
 *    determine if files with no recognized extension are actually HTML.
 */

This has been fixed in the recent release... it will now return a default
type.

--Rob