- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:16:47 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > On 06.04.01 at 14:11, Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote: > > >[...] this applies whenever the validator has to fetch an external DTD. > > > >One element [is] the use of an "Accept: text/*" header when > >SP retrieves a document via HTTP. The rationale for this is that SP > >has no use for non-text documents, and so shouldn't try to fetch them. > > > >In recent correspondence, Liam has suggested that this may not in > >fact be the best, or even correct, thing to do: [...] > "text/*" is obviously too narrow. [...] > >So the questions for discussion are: > > (1) What MIME types *should* we accept? > > Every MIME type that SP can handle. This includes text/*ml, > application/*ml, and whatever else they've come up with now. In practice > this probably means that you have to keep track of all defined MIME types > for SGML/XML and accept those -- until you finally give up and just list > */* :-) -- and allow additional MIME types to be specified with > --http-accept="text/vnd.wap.wml,sgml/*,xml/*" on the command line. As a simple fix, I've released lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.4 [1] with Accept: */* in place of Accept: text/*. [1] http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/src/lq-sp-1.3.4.4.tar.gz -- Liam Quinn
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