Re: Mysterious character encoding detection

From: Terje Bless (link@pobox.com)
Date: Wed, Sep 19 2001

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    Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:39:56 +0200
    From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    cc: Per Angstrom <per.angstrom@autark.se>
    Message-ID: <20010919175510-r01010800-b789c03e-0910-010c@192.168.1.6>
    Subject: Re: Mysterious character encoding detection
    
    On 19.09.01 at 04:24, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
    
    >Validating the result page shows up errors :-)
    
    Found & Fixed! Thanks for the catch!
    
    
    >* 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.
    
    No, it doesn't appear to be related AFAICT.
    
    >>Pressing the Revalidate button on the results page will generate 
    >>another erroneous detection: 'http'.
    >>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 ;-)
    
    And one that has me completely stumped too. I've flagged it for attention,
    but right now I don't know where to even begin looking for this one so I'm
    going to leave it hanging until I find some time to give it my full
    attention. Please let me know if you find any other pages that exhibit this
    problem!