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29.2; EWW fails to render some webpages

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Sebastián Monía <sebastian <at> sebasmonia.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 73133 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ganimard <at> tuta.io
Subject: bug#73133: 29.2; EWW fails to render some webpages
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:59:18 -0700

On 9/25/2024 1:46 PM, Sebastián Monía wrote:
> Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> I was actually thinking something more general, like a defcustom named
>> 'eww-guess-content-type-functions', which would be a list of functions
>> where the first non-nil result is the guessed Content-Type. That way,
>> we could extend this to other content types (for example, maybe we'd
>> want to look for the magic headers for various image formats too; we
>> don't have to do that in this bug).
> 
> I think the functions for the new defcustom should accept the
> content-type, headers (since both are already parsed by that time), and
> the entire buffer. If you agree, I can give your suggestion a shot, if
> not let me know what do you think would work.

I think we'd only want to run this hook if the Content-Type is absent 
from the headers (its job is to *guess* a content type, after all), so 
I'd expect the signature to be the list of headers + the buffer.

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