From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:06:51 GMT Subject: Re: bug with gitweb on kernel.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1177294925.24896.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> J.H. wrote: > Well the only difference in the pages being served is the mime type > application/html vs. application/xhtml+xml.  Does anyone know the > original impetus to using application/xhtml+xml (despite the fact that > it's technically the correct choice) vs. just using application/html for > everything?  I'm sure there was a good reason behind it and I'd rather > know what that reason was before I got changing things The idea was to serve application/xhtml+xml to browsers which _explicitely_ support it. But coupled with the fact that gitweb on kernel.org is modified gitweb with caching, and it looks like it caches also HTTP headers... I think simplest solution would be to remove complication, and always serve text/html (at least for kernel.org gitweb with caching modifications). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git