Brian
On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, Marc VanHeyningen wrote:
> [ This barfed and died on my previous attempts to send it to the
> www-talk list, here goes again... ]
>
> > Thirdly, if I create some HTML 3 documents and put them on my server,
> > which I intend to do, if I get my server to spit out
> >
> > Content-type: text/html; version=3.0
> >
> > will this break anything? Will it offend anyone? Will it help anyone?
>
> This will break almost all existing clients. Most of them are not smart
> enough to parse content-types according to MIME rules but will simply
> determine that "text/html; version=2.0" is not a recognized content-type
> and prompt the user to save the result in a file.
>
> Of those clients I have handy, Mosaic 2.5b for X, Netscape 0.9b for X, and
> Lynx 2.3b all do this. Only Arena 0.91b does the right thing.
>
> If you want to test this, a simple file with that content-type is
> available at <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/test.params>.
>
> It's a pity, because it's obviously the right way to provide versioning
> information but existing software won't work with it.
> --
> Marc VanHeyningen <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/mvanheyn.html>
>