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000769_timbl@www3.cern.ch _Wed Mar 17 18:09:55 1993.msg
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From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
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To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Subject: Sorry, can't convert format
Cc: stellr@smyrna.cc.vt.edu (Ray Stell), www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
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| Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 23:57:13 -0800
| From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
|
| Ray Stell writes:
| > Using 0.9 to the following:
| >
| >
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/HTMLGeneration/txt2html.sed
| >
| > returns the following:
| >
| > 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]].
Tim BL