On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:48, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:36:02AM -0700, Bernard Li wrote:
>> Hi Carlo:
>>
>> http://ganglia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ganglia?view=rev&revision=1438
>>
>> Do we really want the debug message to be "text/plain"?
>
>> Previously it is "text/html" (default)
>
> the default content to use is a webserver configuration, I presume in your
> setup is probably text/html which is why you were not able to see the bug.
> it is specially annoying if you happen to have something like
> "application/octet-stream" instead and I am pretty sure has to be amusing if
> it happens to be "audio/x-wav".

That seems like a reasonable reason to force the type ourselves.  We
know what the output is, and should properly declare it as such.

>> and the text are wrapped such that you could
>> see the entire command on the screen.  Now there is no text-wrapping
>> and makes it hard to see the entire command in one go.
>
> you also couldn't see the bug because your browser was nice enough to format
> and wrap an invalid HTML file but that is also specific to your setup.
>
> if you want to have it formatted and wrapped I would recommend doing that in
> the code instead.  if that is the case HTML might be better, as it will also
> allow for other formatting aids like fonts, bold and colors, but I think the
> currently proposed setup is more practical for a debugging flag.

A middle ground would be to do *minor* preprocessing on the command,
to make the lines
wrap cleanly, then wrap it in <pre> tags.

-- 
Jesse Becker
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