Re: Mysterious character encoding detection

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Date: Tue, Sep 18 2001

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    From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
    To: Per Angstrom <per.angstrom@autark.se>
    Cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:24:47 +0200
    Message-ID: <d80gqt8nf90de3uqrj6n80v24r3gngr4fc@4ax.com>
    Subject: Re: Mysterious character encoding detection
    
    * Per Angstrom wrote:
    >I get a mysterious error when trying to validate www.cisco.com:
    >'The detected character encoding was "inline". The error was ""'.
    >
    >The request is encoded like this: <URL
    >http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cisco.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline 
    >>.
    
    Hm, I didn't take a look at the current code, this may be caused by
    
      <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html">
    
    on this page, but I fear it isn't.
    
    >Pressing the Revalidate button on the results page will generate 
    >another erroneous detection: 'http'.
    
    Validating the result page shows up errors :-)
    
    >I'm curious to know where the error comes from.  I'm sorry if this is a 
    >well-known problem, but I could not find any reference to it.
    
    It seems we finally have some new bugs ;-)
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