Re: More on Binary Files

At 11:13 AM 01/10/98 -0400, David Clark wrote:
>How should this guideline handle server generated code, like .cfm
>files.(cold fusion). Their output is HTML. Is that all that matters?

Yes.

>How can
>format be verified, other than DOCTYPE which is not widely used.

The server should send

Content-Type: text/html; charset=whatever

in the HTTP headers, identifying the document as HTML encoded using the
"whatever" character encoding.  (ISO-8859-1 is most common for English
documents.)

-- 
Liam Quinn

Received on Thursday, 1 October 1998 19:08:59 UTC