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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org