"The 'text/html' media type [RFC2854] is primarily for HTML, not for XHTML. In general, this media type is NOT suitable for XHTML." This patch makes gitweb use content negotiation to conservatively send pages as Content-Type 'application/xhtml+xml' when the user agent explicitly claims to support it. It falls back to 'text/html' even if the user agent appears to implicitly support 'application/xhtml+xml' due to a '*/*' glob, working around an insidious bug in Internet Explorer where sending the correct media type prevents the page from being displayed. Signed-off-by: Alp Toker <alp@xxxxxxxxxx> --- gitweb/gitweb.cgi | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.cgi b/gitweb/gitweb.cgi index 2e87de4..bd9b9de 100755 --- a/gitweb/gitweb.cgi +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.cgi @@ -293,7 +293,17 @@ sub git_header_html { } } } - print $cgi->header(-type=>'text/html', -charset => 'utf-8', -status=> $status, -expires => $expires); + my $content_type; + # require explicit support from the UA if we are to send the page as + # 'application/xhtml+xml', otherwise send it as plain old 'text/html'. + # we have to do this because MSIE sometimes globs '*/*', pretending to + # support xhtml+xml but choking when it gets what it asked for. + if ($cgi->http('HTTP_ACCEPT') =~ m/(,|;|\s|^)application\/xhtml\+xml(,|;|\s|$)/ && $cgi->Accept('application/xhtml+xml') != 0) { + $content_type = 'application/xhtml+xml'; + } else { + $content_type = 'text/html'; + } + print $cgi->header(-type=>$content_type, -charset => 'utf-8', -status=> $status, -expires => $expires); print <<EOF; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> @@ -301,7 +311,7 @@ sub git_header_html { <!-- git web interface v$version, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers\@vrfy.org>, Christian Gierke --> <!-- git core binaries version $git_version --> <head> -<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> +<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="$content_type; charset=utf-8"/> <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/> <title>$title</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="$stylesheet"/> -- 1.4.1.g97c7-dirty - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html