Next message: Terje Bless: "Re: several fixes"
From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:17:34 +0200
Message-ID: <apbpdtoe4fsmvll55b51b0gfl3kjj07ouk@4ax.com>
Subject: Re: several fixes
* Terje Bless wrote:
>> * don't claim to be redirected from http://host or http://host:80/ to
>> http://host/ -> uses URI::eq()
>
>But lack of a trailing slash _is_ a redirect!
http://host and http://host/ are equivalent, the trailing slash may be
omitted here, see RFC 2616. What you mean is
http://www.w3.org/TR redirects to http://http://www.w3.org/TR/
URI::eq returns true for the first case, false for the second.
>> * un-break /referer;ss etc. -> lets CGI.pm parse the trailing part
>
>Hmm, this was dropped back when we first moved to CGI.pm partially to
>discourage that syntax as it's indescribably ugly IMO. Wanna "think aloud"
>about why you think it's a good idea?
E.g. if you want to present the outline of the document, specify a
doctype, show the source, etc.pp.
>> * the line
>>
>> $q->param('uri', $q->param('uri') . '/')
>> unless $q->param('uri') =~ m(/);
>>
>> is useless, $q->param('uri') always contains a '/' or the '/' isn't
>> needed anywhere -> deleted
>
>http://foo.com --> http://foo.com/
Yes, that trailing slash can be omittet, I don't see any good reason to
add the slash here, but if you want to do so, please use
URI->new( $uri )->canonical
The above can be replaced with URI::Heuristic by the way. In general,
I'd better use one URI object instead of all those $q->param('uri')
calls.
>>other issues
>>
>> * prevent caching of /referer documents
>> -> what about using a HTTP::Headers object for the header instead of
>> a simple string?
>
>I'm not following you here. Where do you want to use HTTP::Header, why,
>how, and for what?
Currently the header is saved like
my $header = <<"EOF";
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
...
and printed where needed, if we want to add caching headers, it would be
better to use a HTTP::Headers object here instead of a plain scalar.
>> * what about using a XML validator without the limitations of nsgmls
>> to validate XML documents?
>
>Such as? :-)
http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/dist/
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html
XML::LibXML, XML::Xerces, etc.
>>- Or add a "show source iff errors" option?
>>+ Or add a "show source if errors" option?
>
>Not sure this is a typo. "iff" == "if and only if"
Well, this wasn't covered by any of the 3 dictionaries if searched
through...
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