- From: Christoph Schneegans <Christoph@Schneegans.de>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:37:42 GMT
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
Nigel Peck wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that the MarkUp area of the W3C site is > inaccessible to IE6 on PC. I can confirm this. > it's tries to download it rather than view it, I'm guessing this is > because it's being served as application/xhtml+xml as previously > discussed? > > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ This site obviously uses Apache's content negotiation feature to negotiate between two variants, Overview.xhtml and Overview.html. The problem is that IE's "Accept:" header does not explicitly mention "text/html". Thus, Apache selects Overview.xhtml according to <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html>, because it's the variant with the smallest content length. However, it's easy to change Apache's behaviour by using directives like Options +MultiViews AddType text/html;charset=utf-8 .html AddType application/xhtml+xml;utf-8;qs=0.999 .xhtml in the .htaccess file. Alternatively, a type map can be used. Who is the right person to contact on this issue? -- <http://schneegans.de/>
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