Re: Hexdump web service

Hello Bjoern,

Many thanks for this idea. I have copied Olivier, because he
knows more about the validator than I do. I think that such a
service might definitely help people, but it might also
confuse some people if not designed carefully. Would you be
able and willing to help with programming?


At 19:36 04/02/20 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>   It is nowadays quite common that authors have trouble with some
>encoding issues, literal U+00A0 characters in web pages, multiple
>Unicode signatures due to server side file inclusion mechanisms,

This one sounds scary. But I assume you haven't just made it up.
Can you tell us more, e.g. with examples? We are still thinking
about what exactly to do with the BOM in various cases, and so
input in this area is quite appreciated.

Regards,   Martin.


>etc. In order to analyze, visualize and fix such issues, it is
>often helpful to look at the raw bytes of a document. To ease this
>for users, I would like to have a W3C web service that allows to
>enter a URI and returns something like
>
>   00000000: 3C 3F 78 6D 6C 20 76 65 | 72 73 69 6F 6E 3D 22 31 | <?xml 
> version="1
>   00000010: 2E 30 22 20 65 6E 63 6F | 64 69 6E 67 3D 22 55 54 | .0" 
> encoding="UT
>   00000020: 46 2D 38 22 3F 3E 0A 3C | 21 44 4F 43 54 59 50 45 | 
> F-8"?>.<!DOCTYPE
>   00000030: 20 68 74 6D 6C 20 50 55 | 42 4C 49 43 20 22 2D 2F |  html 
> PUBLIC "-/
>   00000040: 2F 57 33 43 2F 2F 44 54 | 44 20 58 48 54 4D 4C 20 | /W3C//DTD 
> XHTML
>   ...
>
>I think such a service would be of great use for the various W3C
>Validation tools, in case of encoding errors they could just link
>to it; and it's only a few lines of code to write one.
>
>regards.

Received on Friday, 20 February 2004 16:02:22 UTC