Re: Two Wishes for Bobby (and another one)

At 05:49 PM 12/17/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Another wish:
>
>Another thing which should not be rocket science is that the W3C 
>validator and Bobby can render the HTTP response headers to the user
>(for online documents). I had hard time finding a way to see what 
>my server sends. This is pardoxical as every browser has this info,
>but most hide it well for some reason. (An exception is Cello, that 
>gives the headers in its "view source" option; but I can't recommend
>installing Cello just for that; Netscape gives the Content-Type in a
>non-trivial way in its "view info" option; Opera seems to hide the 
>headers from the user.)
>
>http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html is a service to view the response
>headers for GET requests. It also has the option of choosing a user-agent
>string to check for discrimination on this basis.


Lynx will show you the headers in either of two ways.  It has a keystroke
to issue an HTTP HEAD request and it shows you the headers returned.  Also
you can use trace mode to get the back and forth dialog.

Al

Received on Thursday, 17 December 1998 16:41:01 UTC