Re: html files not named .html

Aleksandar Totic <totic@milton.cs.uiuc.edu>

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From: Aleksandar Totic <totic@milton.cs.uiuc.edu>
Message-id: <199311170203.AA15322@milton.cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: html files not named .html
To: sanders@bsdi.com
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 20:03:53 CST
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In-reply-to: <199311162130.PAA29310@austin.BSDI.COM>; from "Tony Sanders" at Nov 16, 93 3:30 pm
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> I don't agree that servers should ALWAYS return a content-type:
> because there is a defined default if content-type is missing.
> http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/Body.html sez:
>     The data (if any) sent with an HTTP request or reply is in a format
>     and encoding defined by the object header fields, the default being
>     "plain/text" type with "8bit" encoding.
> *However*, defensive programming would dictate that you be explicit.
> 
> Note that the HTTP/1.0 spec:
>     http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html
> has changed a bit over the past few months.  Both server and browser
> authors should probably re-read it.

Oh no. I think that XMosaic and MacMosaic assume HTML. I have had it
set on plain, but changed it to HTML because too many people have
complained about crappy documents. Example is NII server.

Aleks