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#73133
29.2; EWW fails to render some webpages
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Reported by: Ganimard <ganimard <at> tuta.io>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 04:09:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 29.2
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On 9/21/2024 2:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 23:06:56 -0700
>>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
>>>
>>> From my reading of RFC9110[1], this is *technically* a bug (we should
>>> assume application/octet-stream, not text/plain), but that wouldn't fix
>>> the rendering here; it would probably make things worse. However, per
>>> the RFC, EWW would be within its rights to guess that the page is HTML,
>>> e.g. by checking for "<!doctype html>". It also recommends having that
>>> be an option that can be disabled, which is reasonable (and in keeping
>>> with Emacs's design principles anyway).
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#section-8.3-5
>> Thanks. Would someone like to submit a patch along these lines?
>
> It'll probably be a couple weeks until I have time to write a patch,
> but if no one has done so by then, I'll look into it.
Would the patch attached work?
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