- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:13:35 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- CC: software-questions@infoseek.com
In order to satisfy the validator, I modified the HTTP headers sent by IIS for .HTML documents to specify Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 rather than Content-Type: text/html as previously, as a result of which my campus search engine (Infoseek/Inktomi/Verity) refused to index the pages, diagnosing them as "406 : not acceptable". Since searching is even more important than validation, I have with some regret re-configured IIS to once again send Content-Type: text/html Since it would clearly be impossible to modify all 35000 documents to use an HTTP-EQUIV meta-statement, can the validator team please suggest any other way of allowing the validator to perceive the documents as having a defined character set whilst allowing Infoseek/Inktomi/Verity to continue to index the pages ? Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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