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Karl:

By any chance did the Price Watch header brag about what
authoring tool created this monstrosity?

For example, does it say generated by Front Page, or some such?

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Karl Dahlke wrote:

> Well the page doesn't work on edbrowse either.
> I saved it to a file and checked the file type.
> It is gzip compressed, and when deflated via gunzip,
> it gives proper html.
> Trouble is, neither lynx nor edbrowse knows to deflate it.
> The order to deflate is usually given in the http header.
> We are told that it is compressed,
> and which tool to use to expand it.
> But I looked at their header and there is no such command.
> It says, among other things,
> 
> content-type: text/html
> 
> That means it's text, to be rendered as html, no compression.
> Well that's what it's suppose to be.
> There are some secret codes however, which probably tell microsoft explorer
> to uncompress it.
> The page comes from a microsoft server.
> So once again, Microsoft sucks!
> 
> I'm not sure there is any way arond it.
> In edbrowse, I could probably add some code to force gunzip
> at the user's request, whether the header says to or not.
> Or I could learn the secret Microsoft code to uncompress,
> if that's what's going on.
> I think lynx users are going to be out of luck for a while.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
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