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Re: text/plain content type

From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Date: 07 May 2003 18:50:58 +0300
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <1052322658.5915.33.camel@bobcat.ods.org>

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 02:36, Audrey Berns wrote:

> I've copied the following two statements from files that DO validate to
> those that do NOT, to no avail:
> 
>  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> 
> The files are saved w/ an .htm extension.
> 
> Can you provide insight into this error? I did not see it listed w/ the
> other validation type error messages.

Copying the doctype or modifying the document(s) otherwise won't affect
the Content-Type, which is what the validator is complaining about.

The Content-Type HTTP header is sent by your web server, which obviously
hasn't been configured properly for *.htm documents.  Probably it does
the right thing for *.html, which is (I guess) why validator starts to
check them in the first place.  So, configuring your web server to send
*.htm as text/html should do the trick.

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\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Received on Wednesday, 7 May 2003 11:51:03 UTC

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