Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents

[Denis N. Antonioli]

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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
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