[CALL FOR REVIEW] doc and www converted to XML

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Aug 30 14:15:29 UTC 2012


On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> Em 30-08-2012 09:45, Matthew D. Fuller escreveu:
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:41:20PM +0200 I heard the voice of
>> Gabor Kovesdan, and lo! it spake thus:
>>>>
>>>> This whole thing could be mitigated with some HTTP redirection. We
>>>> could rewrite http://freebsd.org/doc/\([^#]*\)#\(.*\) to
>>>> http://freebsd.org/doc/\1#\2 where \2 is converted to lower-case.
>> Er, the fragment isn't sent over HTTP.  The server never sees the
>> "#whatever".
>
> Ooops, I didn't think of that... Then we may use a simple JavaScript to
> deal with this. Yes, I know it can be turned off but we also use it on
> freebsd.org.

Even if the anchor is wrong, the browser should still display the 
document.  Are there things other than anchors that will be affected?



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