Re: SVG 1.2 Comment: image/svg+xml;charset=""

On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 4:07:10 PM, Robin wrote:

RB> Chris Lilley wrote:
>> On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 3:36:29 PM, Bjoern wrote:
>> BH> Are you saying that the proposed registration would avoid that, i.e.,
>> BH> that http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/utf8-or-iso-8859-1.svg must be
>> BH> considered UTF-8 encoded by all implementations?
>> 
>> Actually I wonder about how you are serving that:
>> 
>> clilley@homer:~$ telnet www.bjoernsworld.de 80
>> Trying 212.172.16.14...
>> Connected to www.bjoernsworld.de.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> HEAD /temp/utf8-or-iso-8859-1.svg HTTP/1.0
>> Accept: image/svg+xml

RB> It looks a lot like since you haven't specified the Host the server is
RB> defaulting to whatever default site is there, which doesn't contain that
RB> document.

Ah OK, thanks. I hadn't realized the server was HTTP/1.1 only.

RB> A better tool for such tests is the HEAD command, which you get when
RB> installing Perl and libwww-perl. Other options include some switches of
RB> wget or curl.

Chris@Epona ~/W3C/WWW/2001/tag
$ which HEAD
/usr/bin/HEAD

Ok, looks like I have got head.


-- 
 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group

Received on Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:14:07 UTC