Re: bug with gitweb on kernel.org

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, J.H. wrote:

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 23:02 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

quoted

Almost 2 months ago we discussed about gitweb not properly detecting the 
client's ability to deal with application/xhtml+xml, something to do 
with the caching of a previous request from a client which did support 
it and serving the same content to a subsequent client which does not.

I apparently missed that entire conversation, my apologies.

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Right now www.kernel.org/git is unusable for me with lynx as it keeps 
prompting:

	application/xhtml+xml  D)ownload, or C)ancel

Is there any plan to have that fixed?

Well there are a couple of quick thoughts, so far (in my quick testing)
lynx and IE are the only two browsers that have issues with this
particular bit of code.  Links, konqueror, safari, firefox, mozilla, etc
all seem to handle the pages without issue.

No.  You also missed that links, elinks, and the emacs one (w3m or the 
like) were also reported to fail.  And sometimes lynx even works.

 Taking a quick glance at the code it seems IE claims to be xhtml+xml 
compliant but apparently isn't really (any real surprise?) and lynx 
just doesn't seem to support that mime type.

Lynx and many others.  It is just a question of luch whether the served 
page is acceptable or not.

The simplest fix would be to eliminate the distinction between
applicatoin/xhtml+xml and application/html in the gitweb code (or at
least in the caching gitweb code) and have everything claim a mimetype
of application/html and let the browser sort out if it's using xhtml or
html from the doctype.  This would solve both the problem your seeing on
lynx and would make the caching gitweb usable by more IE users.

Great.


Nicolas