- From: J. Grant <jg@jguk.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 21:19:13 +0100
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>, www-validator@w3.org
Hello David, I am not sure if my email got though, I have not received a reply My proposed revision does not seem to have made it onto the http://validator.w3.org/ . I wonder if you received my email ok? Kind regards JG On 26/04/05 20:27, J. Grant wrote: > Hi David, > > Thank you for your quick response. > > [...] > >> No, the <meta> tag is a (very) poor mans way to specify HTTP headers, >> and real HTTP headers always take precedence. If I request those >> headers I get: >> >> [david@cyberman ~/]$ lynx -head -dump >> "http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=67" >> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK >> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:59:16 GMT >> Server: Apache >> Set-Cookie: >> JSESSIONID=CuP90nVOjbVQCzSrtM83cXtk2zcHTWTOiIVy29ZWnlOorhYCr1FZ!616 >> 296125!c4wlgnode001!8888!-1; path=/ >> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=81 >> Connection: Keep-Alive >> Content-Type: ??/html; charset=UTF8 >> Set-Cookie: NSC_d43e13d40050=c0a808170050;path=/ >> >> Note the Content-Type header. >> The content type should be "text/html" but comes out as "??/html" >> where "??" are characters that my terminal appears to have decided >> mean "Ctrl+End". The character encoded is specified as "UTF8" and is >> missing the "-" >> >> If I repeat the request, the "??" part of the content type comes out >> as something different every time. Something is *very* broken with >> either the JSP script or the server. >> >> >>> In addition, could a clearer error message be displayed by the >>> validator? >> >> >> Could you make a suggestion? > > > Ok, sure. Certainly verbose shoudl display similar output to your dump > from lynx as above. > > In addition this text would be nice: > > ===================== > Sorry! A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character > encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character > encoding yet, or you have specified a non-existent character encoding > (often a misspelling). > > Error: Invalid characters found in HTTP Content-Type: "??/html; > charset=UTF8" > (Server likely has a configuration fault. Contact the hosts' webmaster.) > > Error: Invalid charset: UTF8. Valid charsets are <link to valid list> > (Server likely has a configuration fault. Contact the hosts' webmaster.) > =============== > > Note I did not lower-case the "utf8" as the present web page seems to. > If it is "UTF8" in its broken form I think it should remain as that in > the error. > > I am not on this list, please include my email address in any replies. > > Kind regards > JG -- Homepage: http://jguk.org/ Blog: http://jguk.org/blog.rss Radio: http://jguk.org/#radio
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