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- | Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 23:57:13 -0800
- | From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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- | Ray Stell writes:
- | > Using 0.9 to the following:
- | >
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- | >
- http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/HTMLGeneration/txt2html.sed
- | >
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- | > returns the following:
- | >
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- | > HTFormat: Sorry, can't convert from application/binary to
- www/present.
- | >
-
- | > is it something I said?
-
- Which, translated, means: "I'm sorry, the document as far as I can
- tell is binary and I don't know how to present that to you as
- you haven't told me you can handle binary."
-
- That is because I haven't reagistered .sed as text. I just might
- make the default text rather than binary. Anyone got any smart
- ideas about how to distinguish (fast?). In the mean time
- I'll register a new suffix.
-
-
-
- | That is DEFINITELY not a Mosaic bug. Looks like the server is
- having
- | a little trouble (the client/server architecture of WWW is such
- that
- | error messages like this are returned from the server to the client
- as
- | if they were the actual requested document -- the client never
- knows
- | the difference [and thus doesn't *need* to know the difference,
- which
- | keeps things simple]).
-
-
- This simple but sometimes confusing system is richer with 2.0.
- The response can be of type OK, error, forward, etc. The error
- message causes a different sort of object to be loaded.
- [[Actually each client can do something different with the
- HTLoadError routine]].
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- Tim BL
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