Re: bug with gitweb on kernel.org

["J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>]

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
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