I agree with ignoring the malformed parts, unless you want to try to
accomodate the '=' in place of the ':'.

mike


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Bryant Luk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think making this change is fine.  I think we'd have to ignore the
> "malformed" parameters unless someone has a better idea?
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Baram, Eliezer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And here is the mail he tried to post
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Steve Miller <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:15 AM
>> Subject: Tolerance to malformed media types in Wink client
>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>
>> Hi
>> I created a crawler using the Apache wink client, but I found out that wink 
>> client is not tolerant to malformed media types, even if the malformed part 
>> is only a media type parameter. Unfortunately there are a lot of those in 
>> the internet.
>> When wink receives such media type it throw exception with the message: 
>> 'java.lang.IllegalArgumentException ... Verify that the format is like 
>> "type/subtype".'
>> I think it would be good if wink can be more tolerant for such media types, 
>> especially since they are common. It will surly easy my time :-)
>>
>> Here are examples of the media types that cause the problem and their 
>> source. This is a sample, the sites list is longer, but the media type 
>> patterns return on themselves.
>>
>> URL:   http://www.aol.com/   (and all aol sites around the globe)
>> Media Type: text/html;;charset=utf-8
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>> URL: http://www.plugrush.com/
>> Media Type: text/html; charset: UTF-8
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>> URL: http://www.torrentleech.org/
>> Media Type: text/html; charset=
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>> URL: http://www.comingsoon.net/
>> Media Type: text/html; $str_charset; charset=ISO-8859-1
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>> URL: http://www.globalsources.com/
>> Media Type: text/html; UTF-8;charset=ISO-8859-1
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>> URL: http://dic.academic.ru/
>> Media Type: text/html; utf-8
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>> URL: http://www.warnerbros.com/
>> Media Type: text/html; UTF-8;charset=UTF-8
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
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