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

[Geo]

hi,
 Trouble is since we cannot "see" it how do we contact the numb nut who put it 
there and tell them its broke ?


On Sunday 10 Oct 2004 10:56 am, will wrote:
> 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.
>
> [0]Broken

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