[Gllug] Is it just me or is www.hmce.gov.uk broken?

[will]

Pip wrote:
> On Sunday 10 Oct 2004 10:29, Mark Hill wrote:
> 
>>From using lynx with the site, I think the redirected URL is a gzip
>>compressed text file. Can IE handle such things, or is this site
>>having a bad day? 
> 
> The browser isn't at fault. I've tried Dillo, Konqueror and Opera, you've 
> tried lynx, others have tried Firefox... none of them know what to do with 
> a .portal file.
> Well, that's my guess anyway.

Actually, the filename suffix is not an issue, you can call a file 
whatever you like, the problem is that they are sending back a 
Content-type: header of text/plain:

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:52:48 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/plain
Age: 27538
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 4634
Keep-Alive: timeout=30, max=297
Connection: Keep-Alive

and so IE is being 'clever'[0] and interpreting it as HTML because it 
sees tags in it, all of the browsers that are having 'problems' are 
rendering it correctly.

Will.

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