Re: several fixes

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Date: Wed, Apr 18 2001

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    From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
    To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
    Cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:57:21 +0200
    Message-ID: <vt6qdtcnr78nilt2ajvgg0pvmv4if7jqat@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()
    >
    >This doesn't seem to work and I can't figure out why (it _should_ work) so
    >I left it out of CVS. I'll look into it as time allows and apply it when it
    >works. Thanks!
    
    I'll take a look, too.
    
    >>I currently have no Text::Iconv installed, so i cannot test these
    >>changes...
    >
    >Is Iconv a showstopper for you?
    
    I'm on Windows NT, I have to get libiconv or something similar for the
    iconv() implementation and get that running, I'm still fighting against
    other packages like XML::Parser 2.30...
    
    >Would it be worthwhile to make a simple way
    >to disable Iconv? At the expense of charset transliteration or by falling
    >back to nkf or somesuch?
    
    Just using the (far superior, if you ask me ;-) Unicode::*-modules would
    be the best option here.
    
    >>  * use $q->redirect for redirects
    
    >CGI.pm doesn't allow for a body object (required by RFC 2616). I'll bug
    >lstein about at some point.
    
    It's only 'suggested' by RFC 2616, i.e. it's a SHOULD not a MUST. Why is
    just printing it out no option here?
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