Re: LYNX-DEV text/html;q=0.000

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> > (though, it could have a bug, I guess...).  Also, who would ever
> > set the quality to less than 0.001 in his/her mailcap file?!?!?
> 
> Is there a way to do a self test, i.e., find out what a particular
> lynx binary is producing on a particular system?  I don't really
> understand the mailcap file, and at present there is no reference to
> text/html in it, so I would like to experiment with better ways to
> configure mailcap.

There are pages out there that will just reflect back to you the
information the server sees, including HTTP headers.  Here is one
example, <URL:http://www.openmarket.com/browsertest/form/nph-dumpid.cgi>.

> Mail has been spotty here recently, so if someone already answered
> please forgive me, but how does one force lynx to hand all text/plain
> files, i.e., all files with the extension .txt, to a viewer?  Putting
> `text/plain   .txt' in mime.types (or SUFFIX in lynx.cfg) with a
> corresponding VIEWER:text/plain:most %s in lynx.cfg doesn't seem to do it.

Defining a viewer for text/plain in lynx.cfg doesn't work since it is
overrideen by the internal setting.  Defining it in one of the mailcap
files doesnt work either, because Lynx explicitly blocks text/html and
text/plain lines from those files.

So it appears Lynx thinks you *shouldn't* be able to do it.  Are you
questioning the wisdom of Lynx? :)  It may be for your own protection..

A viewer definition for text/plain would not just apply to text
*local files*, but to all plain/text Web documents, ftp files etc.,
and also to various stuff Lynx generates internally on-the-fly 
(although not as much as text/html) - for example (i *think*) source
display or the result of a ']' HEAD request.  Are you sure you want that?

Have you tried mapping .txt to text/x-nhetext (or whatever :) ) and then
defining a viewer for *that*?

    Klaus


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