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Re: well-formedness error
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:13:58 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
If there is absolutely no way to do that you are using a basically
unusable web server software.
I'm not using this software. And it's not a matter of «impossible» versus
«possible» at the server level. Mapping new MIME types is surely possible
to do for server administrators on any web server, but I'm not talking
about server administrators. I'm talking about ordinary users that does
not have administrator or super user rights. That does not have the option
of adding anything to .htaccess files because 'AllowOverride' is set to
'None'.
Otherwise there should always be a possibility, asking the web
hosting company to configure it, for example.
At free hosting services, administrators rarely ever listen to their users
about their needs and wishes. Only if something is severely wrong with the
server, they do something.
Seriously, this is a matter of stuffing
AddType application/atom+xml .atom
in your .htaccess file in many hosting scenarios.
I know. But .htaccess is not available.
Or you can wrap the content in a PHP script that just emits the proper
Content-Type header, etc.
I know. But PHP is not available. Not even basic Perl/CGI.
* does not associate .atom with the proper MIME type
* is unwillig to do this upon request
* does not offer this control to users
* does not offer similar means through scripting
The three or maybe more largest free web hosting services in Norway
screams «yes» to all of the above points. Maybe Norway is a developing
country in this regard, and that all other countries have a totally
different situation, but I don't think so. What does for instance AOL
allow their users to do (if AOL has something as a «free» web hosting
service)?
who still want to publish Atom documents on their web site, it rather
seems that such users either do not care about Atom at all or will use
some other kind of online service that handles this for them.
I think it's important to have these users on Atom's team if they want to
be. If not, then fine.
Even if, if the type would then be text/xml they would, in theory, be
limited to use US-ASCII which they most likely do not know and do not
adhere to.
Correct. If screwing RFC-3023 isn't a problem, then this discussion isn't
a problem either. Because then, you can just put the content encoding
inside the XML processing instruction, and give a damn about US-ASCII.
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