Ok the change is out and in the wild it will likely take about 24hrs to work itself through everything. I'll check on it tomorrow to see how things are going. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 21:16 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, J.H. wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 23:02 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: 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