Re: Upgraded 2.0 sources. Please upgrade servers.

"(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>

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Date: 17 Mar 93 11:38 
From: "(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, timbl@www3.cern.ch
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Subject: Re: Upgraded  2.0 sources.  Please upgrade servers.

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> From timbl@www3.cern.ch Tue Mar 16 17:18:43 1993
> From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
> To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
> Subject: Upgraded  2.0 sources.  Please upgrade servers.
> ...
> There is a back-compatibility problem with HTTP, in that some old  
> servers are messed up by the new protocol.  I think this is pre 0.9a  
> servers, which do not ignore the third word on the command line.
> Servers based on csh etc should be OK, as is the 0.9b server.
> This is unfortunate, and means we have to do round upgrading servers  
> before upgrading clients.  I would recommend that servers be updated
> as soon as possible.  The new httpd is running on info.cern.ch and
> doesn't seem to have upset anyone yet after the first 40k  
> transactions.  I would now class the 2.0 server code as beta.
> ...

1. I just got a problem with your new httpd on info.cern.ch.

   When I tried to access the file: 

   http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/HTMLGeneration/fix-html.pl

   with xmosaic 0.10, I got the following error message:

   HTFormat: Sorry, can't convert from application/binary to www/present.

   The line-mode browser www 1.3a produced the same error message.

   With www 2.0 an empty page were produced.

  After that I tried to use the new binary transfer mode feature of mosaic. 
  The result was a file with the above error message.

  The same problem occured with other files referenced from: 
  http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/HTMLGeneration/Overview.html
  for example: text2html.sed

2. Is it possible to get the files referenced from:
   http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/HTMLGeneration/Overview.html
   via ftp ? 

   Or can someone put the files on info.cern.ch under /WWW/dev ?


Arnold

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