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Re: gcc Postscript manual
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: gcc Postscript manual
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:56:55 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Bernd Schmid <bsc at FIZ-Karlsruhe dot DE>
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> For a .ps file with Accept-Encoding we get
> Content-Type: application/postscript
> Content-Encoding: gzip
>
> No Transfer-Encoding headers anywhere.
>
> So, this seems a browser problem and we should "fix" the web pages,
> shouldn't we?
I think the Content-Encoding is the problem in this case and the proper
fix is for Transfer-Encoding to be used here (except it may lack adequate
browser support).
See e.g. <URL:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35956>, various
other pages linked to from there, and RFC2616.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk