Re: [Bug] the HTML validator doesn't handle the Content-Encoding header

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:

>
>* Terje Bless wrote:
>>Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>>>I've just found that the HTTP client of the HTML Validator doesn't
>>>acknowledge the Content-Encoding header, in that a document served as
>>>text/html + content-encoding: gzip will be handled in it binary format,
>>
>>This is an LWP bug.
>
>Why do you think so? I'd call it a missing feature.

Because LWP is documented to handle Transfer-Encoding (using
COmpress::ZLib), has code to do it, has a bug registered for this on the SF
Bug Tracker, and contains various traces of the problem in it's ChangeLog.
Anything else you'd like to know? :-)

Received on Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:43:53 UTC