On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Marc Slemko wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>
> > That's interesting, since http://www.apache.org/docs/ returns
> > Moved Permanantly.
> >
> > Looking at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ which I believe you ment;
> > index.html.html bogusness has no associated charset, index.html.en
> > returns iso-8859-1, .ja.jis returns iso-2022-jp, and index.html.fr
> > returns no charset (but it is iso-8859-1, the HTML default, so I'm
> > not as concerned.)
> >
> > Which directive did you expect to behave which way? And precisely
>
> Apache is supposed to default to adding an iso-8859-1 charset to
> the content-type if none is specified. For _every_ response.
Hrm. I guess that functionality isn't enabled by default. Could have
sworn it was... hmm. Guess I'm senile in my old age.
>
> either that is broken and needs to be fixed, or www.apache.org is,
> for some odd reason, configured explicitly not to do that.
One thing I did note though... the webserver there isn't configured to
expand SSIs... eg.
marcs@alive:~$ telnet www.apache.org 80 | tail -10
GET /docs/ HTTP/1.0
Host: httpd.apache.org
Connection closed by foreign host.
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