Re: Two Wishes for Bobby (and another one)

I can't tell from where I sit how open is this service, 
but w3.org runs a simple cgi that returns your user agent info.

 http://www.w3.org/htbin/test.py


> At 05:49 PM 12/17/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >Another wish:
> >
> >Another thing which should not be rocket science is that the W3C 
> >validator and Bobby can render the HTTP response headers to the user
> >(for online documents). I had hard time finding a way to see what 
> >my server sends. This is pardoxical as every browser has this info,
> >but most hide it well for some reason. (An exception is Cello, that 
> >gives the headers in its "view source" option; but I can't recommend
> >installing Cello just for that; Netscape gives the Content-Type in a
> >non-trivial way in its "view info" option; Opera seems to hide the 
> >headers from the user.)
> >
> >http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html is a service to view the response
> >headers for GET requests. It also has the option of choosing a user-agent
> >string to check for discrimination on this basis.
> 
> 
> Lynx will show you the headers in either of two ways.  It has a keystroke
> to issue an HTTP HEAD request and it shows you the headers returned.  Also
> you can use trace mode to get the back and forth dialog.
> 
> Al

Received on Friday, 18 December 1998 09:16:46 UTC